Carleton Nassau Anchorage
A liminal anchorage where Richard Carleton's ghost-flagged vessels slip between tides, defended by the Bone Counters' careful silence.
- In 2025
- A weathered municipal fuel dock tucked behind the mangroves on Nassau's western shore, where brackish water still seeps into the slips and local boatmen trade dock time for cash or parts; the Bone Counters run the pumps under a faded sign that once read Carleton's, now just a hand-painted board behind the ice machine.
The House in 1725
Richard Carleton claimed this anchorage in 1674 as his first secure mooring after stripping his discharge papers and renaming himself Ironbeard. The Bone Counters, recognizing both its strategic depth and Carleton's usefulness to their rogue admiralty interests, granted him dominion over the site in exchange for discretion and loyalty. By 1725, it has served as the operational base for the Lent-Hand Brotherhood and the staging ground for Carleton's most sensitive commissions—including the architectural work on the Tarbridge skim that occupied him through 1843. The anchorage remains invisible to Brine Gate Harbor's official dock masters and the Insurance Adjusters Guild.
A tall ship at anchor in the sheltered bay of Paradise Island, Nassau, Bahamas, surrounded by dense tropical vegetation and sandy beaches, photographed from an elevated coastal vantage point.
Verdant islands with sheltered anchorage in turquoise waters, typical of the Exuma Cays archipelago in the Bahamas, showing dense tropical vegetation and protected mooring.
The House in 1925
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The House in 2025
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