The Pool

Approach: VERY difficult

Shelter: BAD - Alternative shelter: Charlestown Harbour, dist: 4 M.

Night approach: NO - Night anchorage: No

Draft: Maximum 2 meters

Beware: Many unmarked cayes

Waypoints: approach: 12° 41,3 N - 061° 20,4 W - stop: 12° 41,5 N - 061° 19,5 W

Anchorage: good holding on sand and coral, 2.5 - 3 meters

Leg: 074° V - 0,9 M

Very tricky approach should only be attempted with good visibility (on the way in and also on the way out!) with the sun high in the sky and a crew member watching from the pulpit or spreaders.

Don't enter Friendship Bay. Keep about 80 meters off Friendship Point, then steer NNE keeping as near as possible the external shoal which is quite visible. Just after the islet "The Pool", soundings increase slightly: that's the anchorage!

Beware of the current in the pass.

Going ashore: on the islet "The Pool".

Snorkeling on the reef!