There is a new fuel dock adjacent to the fishing harbour.
NO gas bottles without security valves will be refilled in Curaçao.
Camping Gaz bottles cannot be handled.
Many cruisers may find the only option is to buy an American bottle and regulator.
From Spanish Water take the bus 6A (CaracasBaai/Punda) to Willemstad and then take the 4A (Seru Fortunas) bus and stop at the industrial zone with Kooyman / Building Depot.
Here you can buy an American bottle (local name BBQ propane tank (aluminium ~9kg of gas) and the regulator.
To get the bottle filled, take the bus 4A(Seru Fortunas) and stop at the Curoil station in Münzenberg. To return, take the bus 4A back to Willemstad and then the bus 6A to CaracasBaai. It will take all day to complete this procedure.
It may also be possible to leave empty bottles at the Fisherman's Harbor bar with owner Norman. You leave them on Fridays and can pick them back up on Mondays.
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I would like to know all the fees and charges for clearing in and anchoring on Spanish Waters but the “Fees” links do not work. Can anyone enlighten me? Thanks, Lauri
Hi Lauri,
Thanks for alerting us to the broken link, which I’ve now fixed. All Formalities sections, including fees, can be found by clicking on the “list” icon in the blue bar at the top of the country page.
Curacao fees can be found here – https://www.noonsite.com/place/curacao/view/fees/
Hope that helps,
Sue
Reported by the Caribbean Safety & Security Net:
DATE: 2018-11-28 14:00
Country Name: Curacao
Location Detail: Spanish Water
EVENT: Attempted theft
HAND: 1
Stolen Items: none – not successful
SECURED: Locked
DETAILS: A dinghy was well locked to the dock at the Pirates Nest from 1-4 PM while owners were ashore to check out. When they returned they found one side of a link of the 10 mm stainless steel chain had been cut through with bolt cutters, and incomplete cuts were made on the other side of the same link. The yacht departed early the next morning, as planned. A report was made on the VHF net.
Reported 15 September:
Be careful with stuff in Spanish Waters now. Two guys on Seadoo water scooters are stealing dinghies, motors etc. Our dinghy was stolen from the boat in the night, another locked dinghy was stolen from the dinghy dock – so security was probably sleeping. All in 3 weeks.
Editor’s Note: This comment was recovered following technical problems with the site, so, unfortunately, we have lost the name of the cruiser who posted it, however, the Caribbean Safety and Security Net have reported a number of dinghy and outboard thefts here in September 2017.
Curacao Yacht Club
Curacao Yacht Club can handle one or two transient boats. We inquired ahead of time and reserved a spot. Paid about $1/ft/day for our cat.
They aren’t used to cruisers and don’t monitor their VHF, so when you come in, you have to scream at the fuel dock guy to find out where you should go. Note that the water pressure is quite high; we blew out our hose a few times!
They have trash and parking but no laundry or showers. Wi-Fi is weak, but we were able to boost it to acceptable levels. Sometimes it would drop, so we covered ourselves with a SIM Card from the DTS store in town, which gave us sweet LTE speed at a penny a megabyte.
Overall, the folks at the Yacht Club were nice and our kids enjoyed the giant playground and sand pit as well.
A note on Spanish Waters: Dick from the Yacht Isis no longer provides Wi-Fi, as mentioned in some cruising guides. The poor guy hasn’t done it in years!
Finally, I would recommend Porto Medico by the airport, Dr Allaart, for outpatient medicine. He is kind, speaks multiple languages, and has experience in travel medicine/cruisers.
Melinda Burnett, SV The Amazing Marvin, http://www.burnettsahoy.com
Posted on behalf of Paul and Andy Atkinson of SY Talulah Ruby 111:
Seru Boca Marina
Whilst the marina is out of the way and quite a long dinghy ride to buses, shops, bars etc. I would recommend this marina as the perfect place to leave the boat long term or during the hurricane season.
We left our yacht, a 57 Jeanneau, this year from June to September and had fantastic service from all the staff and new manager, Robert Vandenheuvel. He inspected the boat on a regular basis emailing me a report fortnightly, and at $11 per ft per month, it´s quite a bargain.
The marina is set below a large hill and in the mangroves so very well protected. The marina is part of The Santa Barbara Plantation resort so security is also very good.