Boating Directions & Waypoints

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Boating Directions to Kai Kotch:

These Waypoints lead to the Island Houses dock in Sand Pointe Cove

from the North Sound. Kai Kotch is Island House 17.

Use of the waypoints and the charts in this website are at your own risk. Kai Kotch does not warrant that this route or water depth will be suitable for your boat to navigate. If this is the first time you are following the route, we strongly recommend you do so in daylight when you can visually spot underwater obstructions, and keep a close eye on your depth sounder.

Waypoints shown in BLUE are between or near channel markers (Green & Red buoys).

Remember to follow the Rules:

· Red Right Returning—the Red channel markers should be on your Right when in the channel Returning toward the shore / dock.

· Stay to the Right of the channel when crossing another vessel head-on.

· Reduce speed to “No Wake” (5 knots or less) and tilt your propeller up in the channel and all the way in the cove. There are shallow spots, and obstructions to avoid. Some obstructions observed near the route have been included in the Waypoints table and shown on the chart, but there may be others that would foul your boat hull or propeller depending on draught and tide.

· Remember to watch out for kayaks in the channel and in the cove, and reduce your boat speed to avoid your wake swamping or capsizing them. At night-times with no (or low) moonlight, be particularly watchful for kayak tour groups. Those kayaks display a small Red light on the back of the Rear seat.

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To see the street map and location of The Retreat relative to Island Houses and Rum Point, click this link (Kai Kotch is at 50 Water Cay Road):

http://maps.caymanlandinfo.ky/ArcIMS/AtlasPages/gcpage120.pdf

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Enter these Waypoints in your GPS and create a route for easy navigation to and from the Island Houses dock, just a few steps from your door at Kai Kotch (Island House 17). If you have a GPS with mapping functions you may also want to enter the coordinates for the listed Buoys & Obstructions that have been observed near the path of the route and you should be particularly careful to stay exactly on the route to avoid accidental contact when in the vicinity of those obstructions.

The Island House dock is “first-come first-served” and shared with other Island House tenants and guests, so please observe good boating etiquette and secure your mooring lines properly to avoid the risk of damage to other boats.

Click here to see a chart of the route plotted by these Waypoints.

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Click here to send and inquiry or reservations request to kaikotch@gmail.com