Word: cay
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...report said U.S. investigators believe that Vesco's operatives set up business at Norman's Cay. Vesco allegedly paid about $100,000 a month to Bahamian officials, including the Prime Minister, Sir Lynden Pindling...
...Retired Armonk, N.Y., Businessman Lester Conrad, 68, and Philadelphia Stockbroker Walter Falconer, 60, set out in calm weather five months ago aboard Conrad's sleek 45-ft. Polymer III from Great Harbor Cay for West Palm Beach, a seven-hour cruise that Conrad had made at least 40 times. The Polymer III has not been seen since. The Coast Guard suspects no foul play, but friends and family of both men note that not only was Conrad an experienced yachtsman, but his boat was equipped with an automatically inflatable lifeboat and S O S radio beacons that would have...
...Thomas Loberg, 63, and Wife Rignor, 62, believe that they and their 47-ft cruiser Rig-n-Tom were nearly lured to disaster near Chub Cay last year by a fake S O S. The radio caller mysteriously requested Rig-n-Tom's position rather than giving his own. A traveling companion, Pat Vaughan, happened to be reading about misleading distress calls in The Island, Peter Benchley's fictional account of modern Bahamian piracy, and urged Loberg to ask for the caller's position. There was no answer. Five minutes later, a high-powered fishing boat appeared...
...logbook of their 41-ft. sloop Kalia III, Patti Kamerer, 46, recorded "Anchor up!" on April 28 as she and her husband William, 55, left Fort Myers for a six-month "dream cruise" of the Bahamas. It ended on July 25 with another laconic log entry: "Moored at Pipe Cay." Six days later, Illinois State Representative Harry Yourell, 62, and Son Peter, 20, aboard their 25-ft. cabin cruiser, eased up to the Kalia III and made a grisly discovery: in a dinghy bobbing astern lay a bloated body. The yacht was riddled with shotgun pellets, smeared with blood...
Such close encounters on the high seas have caused many skittish yachtsmen to arm themselves before sailing in Bahamian waters, despite the authorities' insistence that there is no cause for concern. But there is no denying that the drug trade is booming in the small cays. Says Skip Nichols, 33, a Fort Myers marina operator: "Right where Kalia III was found, I have watched drug transactions with my binoculars." There are so many isolated cays-at least 2,000 among the 700 or so islands in the Bahamas archipelago-that the traffic is difficult to police. But some spots...