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Stuck in Paradise! - Sailing Bahamas and Junkanoo celebrations
7 de abril de 2020 · 18 min · 96K visualizações · Georgetown, Exuma Islands
O que este vídeo aborda
Georgetown Harbor in the Exuma Islands, Bahamas, serves as a major cruising hub, hosting approximately 200 to 350 boats during the winter season.4:36 The area features numerous small, protected anchorages suitable for shallow-draft vessels.4:50 During New Year’s celebrations, the town hosts the Junkanoo festival, a cultural parade featuring elaborate, hand-crafted costumes and floats that take hundreds of hours to construct.9:17 Participants from local groups perform in the streets, celebrating Bahamian history and traditions.8:49 While exploring nearby shallow sandbanks to locate filming sites for the *Pirates of the Caribbean* movies, the crew runs their boat aground at mid-tide.11:35 They successfully refloat the vessel by raising the keel to reduce draft and waiting for the rising tide to provide sufficient depth to clear the bar.11:36 The crew emphasizes the importance of calculating tidal height before navigating shallow Bahamian waters to avoid becoming stranded during low tide.12:40
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