Stay

    Our first year in the Bahamas, we were given 30 days on our cruising permit at the Bimini Immigrations Office and spent the last 10 days of that initial permit trying to get an extension, which we did receive while in Georgetown.  Last year, our second trip to the Bahamas I sweet-talked the young lady at the Bimini Immigrations Office into giving us 120 days.  We also needed to get an extension for that permit because our transmission died  when we were attempting to cross the Tongue Of The Ocean while heading back to the United States.  This year, our first time checking in at Nassau, the officials, one customs agent and one immigration agent, came to the boat at the marina and granted us 180 days.  They don't want us to leave; we may have to stay!