{"id":2242,"date":"2008-05-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-23T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/?p=2242"},"modified":"2009-04-15T08:52:36","modified_gmt":"2009-04-15T13:52:36","slug":"s_logs-dashew-dashew485","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/s_logs-dashew-dashew485\/","title":{"rendered":"Marsh Harbor"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"intro\">Marsh Harbor: Interesting boats and shallow water.<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><div align=\"center\" class=\"mosimage\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"612\" hspace=\"6\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Image\" title=\"Image\" src=\"\/images\/stories\/dashew\/turtle-6.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>We passed this lovely vessel actually sailing (something we see little of around the Bahamas). Note the weather cloths and Bimini awning for cockpit protection. They&#8217;ve got a couple of good sized hooks on the bow &#8211; a Bruce and a ROCNA (the latter is on the roller so it must be the primary anchor).<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\" class=\"mosimage\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"612\" hspace=\"6\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Image\" title=\"Image\" src=\"\/images\/stories\/dashew\/marsh-49.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>This is definitely sport fishing country, and you see a lot of these guys trolling. It has us thinking about digging out the meat line. A nice mahi mahi and wahoo could easily be absorbed into our freezer.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\" class=\"mosimage\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"540\" hspace=\"6\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Image\" title=\"Image\" src=\"\/images\/stories\/dashew\/marsh-21.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>There is a front hanging around, bringing showers, which are nice for a change, as long as we don&#8217;t need light for eyeball navigation.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\" class=\"mosimage\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"576\" hspace=\"6\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Image\" title=\"Image\" src=\"\/images\/stories\/dashew\/marsh-53.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Marsh Harbor is not a deep draft kind of place. We carried 5.5 to 6.5 feet (1.8 to 2m) of water into the anchorage, and whenever we maneuvered it left a trail of mud behind us.The anchorage is surrounded with marinas, and the town has lots of stores (markets, big hardware emporiums) and a selection of restaurants. We&#8217;re here to pick up a clearance from Bahamian waters for our trip north.We&#8217;re starting to think about ice.previoushighlights pagenext<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marsh Harbor: Interesting boats and shallow water.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dashew-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2242"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}