January 1st 2017!
Happy New Year :)
After having a wonderful celebrations on the island, and having a wonderful year ending, I was informed that out of our 5 boats only 1 was still operational, but no worries, 3 more boats can be easily be operational when we get the spare parts the next day.
Thanks to Murphy and his law, the last boat lost one of its two engines! so instead of getting on and off the island in 15min , the trip takes you like 50min now!
It is 6pm, no one is available to rent you a boat and the island is full! I am sure you are familiar with the hop on/hopp off bus in the cities, well we have almost a similar concept as a catamaran in Abu Dhabi. Called their operation manager for help, he was amazing sending me one, meanwhile the guests had waited for an hour now on the island waiting to go back to the city! I can say, after offering them some drinks in our Mexican restaurant, all were fine, except a couple, in flip-flops and beach bag, which is normal, claiming they have a flight to catch, and threatening by "TripAdvisor" of course.
The Catamaran is here, it was supposed to operate for two hours that will be enough for my boat mechanic to fix the recently failed engine. 40 guests went on board of the catamaran, some felt like escaping Alcatraz, although with such a lovely weather and a delicious free margaritas the wait was not that bad, but it is their right and I accept that.
I was relaxed, until the catamaran captain called and said that he has to go back to port due to low tide that had just happened!!! what!!!??? when, how!? well this is the "island life" and you have to deal with it. Pressed my boat mechanic to fix the boat asap, so for almost 30 min, the island had only a small jet boat to be used in case of an emergency. At that moment I inserted as speed dial the coast guard number into my cell phone.
4 guests still to depart, 30 min delay, the boat is back into the water with two engines, Hallelujah, well not yet, after 10 meters, the second engine had stopped again! I asked them to continue with one engine, luckily my mechanic was also on board, by the time I was waiting for it on the jetty, I could finally see a roaring speeding boat coming towards me, with two engines fully operational. How? It was a lose connection that was fixed on the way.
Guests were more than superstars, totally relaxed, patients and understanding. I invited them back to the island whenever they want, and things all went back to "normal" waiting for he next day.
A.M
Happy New Year :)
After having a wonderful celebrations on the island, and having a wonderful year ending, I was informed that out of our 5 boats only 1 was still operational, but no worries, 3 more boats can be easily be operational when we get the spare parts the next day.
Thanks to Murphy and his law, the last boat lost one of its two engines! so instead of getting on and off the island in 15min , the trip takes you like 50min now!
It is 6pm, no one is available to rent you a boat and the island is full! I am sure you are familiar with the hop on/hopp off bus in the cities, well we have almost a similar concept as a catamaran in Abu Dhabi. Called their operation manager for help, he was amazing sending me one, meanwhile the guests had waited for an hour now on the island waiting to go back to the city! I can say, after offering them some drinks in our Mexican restaurant, all were fine, except a couple, in flip-flops and beach bag, which is normal, claiming they have a flight to catch, and threatening by "TripAdvisor" of course.
The Catamaran is here, it was supposed to operate for two hours that will be enough for my boat mechanic to fix the recently failed engine. 40 guests went on board of the catamaran, some felt like escaping Alcatraz, although with such a lovely weather and a delicious free margaritas the wait was not that bad, but it is their right and I accept that.
I was relaxed, until the catamaran captain called and said that he has to go back to port due to low tide that had just happened!!! what!!!??? when, how!? well this is the "island life" and you have to deal with it. Pressed my boat mechanic to fix the boat asap, so for almost 30 min, the island had only a small jet boat to be used in case of an emergency. At that moment I inserted as speed dial the coast guard number into my cell phone.
4 guests still to depart, 30 min delay, the boat is back into the water with two engines, Hallelujah, well not yet, after 10 meters, the second engine had stopped again! I asked them to continue with one engine, luckily my mechanic was also on board, by the time I was waiting for it on the jetty, I could finally see a roaring speeding boat coming towards me, with two engines fully operational. How? It was a lose connection that was fixed on the way.
Guests were more than superstars, totally relaxed, patients and understanding. I invited them back to the island whenever they want, and things all went back to "normal" waiting for he next day.
A.M
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