Last July we did a sleep aboard for the first time before our 14th Moorings charter. We had booked a room but as our trip date approached it was looking like we'd have to quarantine on the boat so we cancelled the room and changed to a sleep aboard. With AC it was comfortable and being able to unpack both our stuff and our provisions was great. Typically we wouldn't do that until getting to our first stop out of the base (usually The Bight).

We did have one rather unique problem that wouldn't have happened if we had stayed in the hotel. We ate at the Moorings restaurant and at about 10pm on the way back to the boat the member of our group that had the boat key managed to drop it and it bounced into the water. It didn't have a float and was the only key we had with us. We needed a bolt cutter to cut the lock but none was available. The night guard tried with a hacksaw blade but that didn't work.

Fortunately the front desk was still open and they gave us a couple of rooms for the night. First thing in the AM a maintenance guy cut the lock, got us a new lock with multiple keys and we were back on board. We ended up spending another night in the marina because of an approaching tropical wave so we got to finish our unpacking. The extra night didn't bother us because we had extended our planned 10 day trip to 14 days back when we thought we'd have 4 days of quarantine.