Catalina Sunshine: CELEBRATING A WIN

1000 hours May 6, 2015, Big Majors Spot, Exumas, Bahamas: We headed north to Highborne Cay to spend the night in route to Atlantis. We expected a decision from the Arbitrator on a very significant arbitration on the night of May 8th. This arbitration had consumed most of my time through the end of November last year including nearly 100 days in front of the arbitrator during a period lasting over a year, as well as 9 months before that in preparation. Being a glass half full guy and being on the side of right, as well as having a great legal team who did an outstanding job, I was hopeful we would win and wanted to be where we could celebrate it. That meant Atlantis in the part of the world we were in at the time.

At Highborne Cay we saw some of the same large dark brown mother sharks we had seen at Staniel Cay. Although they are reported to be friendly, we decided not to go swimming even though it was very hot.

We arrived at the super yacht basin in the center of the Atlantis complex just after noon the next day. The yacht basin is surrounded by the elaborate architecture of the casino on one side, a downtown Disney like pedestrian street of shops and restaurants open on one side to the yacht basin, and Atlantis timeshare residential units in four story buildings painted Caribbean pastels colors on the other side. To connect the complex a driving tunnel runs under the the entrance channel to the basin, allowing the basin to be located in the geographical center of the Resort.

Dockage for the large super yachts is arranged mostly med moored against quay walls backed up to casino and the shops and restaurants. Boats our size are berthed in finger piers in front of the time share buildings.

Jackie and I were on our evening walk along side the timeshare pool and the channel to the yacht basin, when I received a call from our lead lawyer who told me we had won. We had not only won we had won 93% of what we had asked for and had been designated the prevailing party, which met we should get reimbursed for our significant attorney fees.

We celebrated the next day in The Cove section of Atlantis with its adults only pool surrounded on most of three sides by cabanas which open to the pool on one side and the beach on the other. We had a great dinner at the Mesa, one of the three restaurants in The Cove.