Florida Powerboat Club Returns To Northern Bahamas After Four-Year Break
08-18-2023 | 06:55 AM
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Florida Powerboat Club Returns To Northern Bahamas After Four-Year Break
Paradise revisited, https://www.speedonthewater.com/flor...ur-year-break/
08-18-2023 | 05:08 PM
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We were just over there a few weeks ago. That grand lucayan waterway is trippy!! Super narrow, no speed limit, eerily quiet then there’s all the abandoned mansions spread out mixed in with a handful of nice homes that appear to still be in use and then the huge abandoned hotel. Place is a trip!!
08-18-2023 | 05:20 PM
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Tank the Bahamas has always been full of dreams followed by bankruptcies and finally abandoned projects.
When you were at West End did you see any improvements for Ginn Sur Mur? It was going to be a sprawling golf course community on the ocean.........of course it went bust, banks lost hundreds of millions and the developer was from central Florida and he disappeared from the spotlight. GSM was literally just outside the gates of West End by the airport.
The Bahamas is crooked, the labor force and materials supply chain are non-existent so its easy to see why projects fail. Even selling a property the "exit tax" is like 20% for the doc stamps.
When you were at West End did you see any improvements for Ginn Sur Mur? It was going to be a sprawling golf course community on the ocean.........of course it went bust, banks lost hundreds of millions and the developer was from central Florida and he disappeared from the spotlight. GSM was literally just outside the gates of West End by the airport.
The Bahamas is crooked, the labor force and materials supply chain are non-existent so its easy to see why projects fail. Even selling a property the "exit tax" is like 20% for the doc stamps.
08-18-2023 | 06:00 PM
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From: Newport Coast, California.
Good to see you guys back in The Bahamas, and on the triple 600 Mag Bay 43. What a battle wagon it is! We've had Swedish Lindroths present on Paradise Island(originally called Hog Island) for 75 years now.
08-18-2023 | 07:29 PM
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Tank the Bahamas has always been full of dreams followed by bankruptcies and finally abandoned projects.
When you were at West End did you see any improvements for Ginn Sur Mur? It was going to be a sprawling golf course community on the ocean.........of course it went bust, banks lost hundreds of millions and the developer was from central Florida and he disappeared from the spotlight. GSM was literally just outside the gates of West End by the airport.
The Bahamas is crooked, the labor force and materials supply chain are non-existent so its easy to see why projects fail. Even selling a property the "exit tax" is like 20% for the doc stamps.
When you were at West End did you see any improvements for Ginn Sur Mur? It was going to be a sprawling golf course community on the ocean.........of course it went bust, banks lost hundreds of millions and the developer was from central Florida and he disappeared from the spotlight. GSM was literally just outside the gates of West End by the airport.
The Bahamas is crooked, the labor force and materials supply chain are non-existent so its easy to see why projects fail. Even selling a property the "exit tax" is like 20% for the doc stamps.
08-18-2023 | 07:41 PM
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there’s a couple nice ocean front houses but nothing really developed other than that. That project looked like it would’ve really made a huge impact on the island there. Too bad it didn’t happen. Although the whole appeal of the west end is the fact it’s not Atlantis or Bimini. Waaaaaaay slower and chill.
The Bahamas has a crime issue that is only getting worse..........Those Lucayan homes are ripe for robbery/home invasion and there is a reason you don't see CC's hanging off the seawalls..........they would be gone in less than a week. Remember guns are illegal there, legal on your boat but not on land.
For those OSO'rs that haven't been to West End this is a pretty accurate video:
