M/V Island Link

     This is M/V Island Link, shown with her drop gate stern to the government dock at Salt Pond.  She is considered to be a power catamaran.  In the Bahamas, this is the mail boat.  A few call it the freight boat, but generally it's the mail boat.  Once  a week on Tuesday, she departs Nassau  for Salt Pond, Long Island with anything and everything including the kitchen sink.  From goats to people, cars to trucks, building materials to construction equipment, it all comes by boat.  Most cargo arrives in one of the trailers you would typically see on the open highway.  They can place on average four 40' trailers on the cargo deck.  She even brings her own jockey tractor to move the trailers onto shore and also a forklift for palletized freight.  One of the most critical items she brings is food including dry goods, refrigerated items and frozen items.  It all comes by the mail boat including the mail.  Most mail boats may service 2 or 3 islands per trip but Island Link's mission is Long Island.  Should you elect to take the 16 hour journey from Potter's Cay Dock in Nassau to the government dock in Salt Pond, the fare is $60.00.