Jerry's take on Georgetown

We were able to motorsail from Farmers Cay down to Georgetown where we were met by Tammi & Bruce Swart to guide us in through some extreme shallows to a wonderful protected (except from French Canadians) anchorage.  On the way in, a Canadian was not sure there was not enough depth for him and he dropped anchor in the middle of a 20' channel.  I had to shift to reverse & high power to not run over him.  I think I scorched his sailed as I went between him and 2' water, there was less than 4' between boats.  Then in typical french, he followed us in and started to anchor between Dos Libros and Encore, which caused me to not only scorch his sails but I singed his eyebrows this time and he anchored ¼ mile away with 10 boats between us.   At a beach bonfire at sundown he apologized and said he was not aware we were that close to him or the channel was that narrow, he was just afraid to go further.

Here in Georgetown there are only 175 cruiser boats this year, probably due to bad weather in the states so more will come.  The average is 250 and it is called chicken harbor cause about half of the boats have been here over a year.  They stopped here on their way south and chickened out.  On the other hand it is not a bad place to hang out.  They have airlines, banks, drug stores, laundries, grocery stores, hardware, lumber, all marine system repairs and unusually polite and friendly people that cater to cruisers.  The main grocery has a dinghy dock with free water that will accommodate 30 or so dinghys.  If you can't find what you need you can have it shipped in but make sure of all the cost, like 45% import tax.