New Plymouth (Green Turtle Cay) : Profile

Location

This is a good hurricane shelter with Black Sound being the best option. There are several reasonable stores in the main street, for hardware and food.

To get into the sounds is a bit tricky and certainly getting into Black Sound should best be done at HW. The Green Turtle Club is located in White Sound. The Black Sound has the boat yard as you enter on your port side and the marina almost at the end of the sound to starboard.

Clearance

If clearing in, then new Plymouth has to be visited first. Customs and Immigration are open from Monday to Friday, but are often closed. The lady officer in charge lives in the first house further down on the same street.

Customs and Immigration
Parliament Street, New Plymouth
Tel:242 365 4077
Opening Hours: 0900-1700 (Mon-Fri, weekends by request)

Docking

Anchoring off New Plymouth town is in sand and grass and you can get as close to town as your draft allows, it shallows very gradually. Take the dinghy to the wooden town pier where you can leave it without having to worry about it.

Both Black Sound and White Sound provide good sheltered berths. Deep draft boats however need to use the anchorage off the town.

Last updated December 2008.

Black Sound Marina
Tel:+242 365 4531, VHF Channel 16
info@blacksoundmarinaabaco.com
15 berths for boats up to 12m with max. draught 2.1m. Water, electricity, showers, laundry, ice and bbq/picnic area.

Green Turtle Club
White Sound, Green Turtle Cay
Tel:+242 365 4271, Fax:+242 365 4272
goabacos@greenturtleclub.com
32 berths, water, electricity, showers and toilets (with key deposit), fuel dock and coin laundry.

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