We are safely ensconced at The Wharf at Orange Beach after braving the waters of Mobile Bay with a small craft advisory and predicted 25 mph winds. Listen while I tell you the tale. We begin in the wee hours of this morning while I turned restlessly in bed worrying about the weather. We wanted to […]
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Our fifth day at Eastern Shore Marina dawned to near gale force winds. We had rocked like babies in a cradle most of the night. I was up every hour or so to reposition fenders and check lines. Some boats took it worse than others depending on position to the wind and their hull
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I am alive thanks to Dr. Bundakwala, who was willing to give me antibiotics to carry on the trip. Amoxicillin and Sudafed seem to be doing the trick. Self diagnosis seems to be sinus infection triggered by cold water submersion. You live and learn. Today we did laundry, scrubbed fenders and swim platform from the dirty
Well it has happened. My diving episode in these cold harbor waters has caused me to contract some dread disease which my father would have called the Epizootic. If it was really bad it was called the Creeping Epizootic. More on this later. We are still in Fairhope, AL and getting eager to move on. But
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First a word about typos. I really can read and write and once won a spelling bee in my far distant youth, but writing these blogs at late hours after a long day does not give much incentive to proofread. So I write them, post them and then the next day I may read them
A yachting we will go. Read More »
Once you read this you will wonder why two otherwise sane educated people would put themselves in such a position. The answer is adventure on the high seas. Now when last we left our off we were in Old Briar Creek riding out a minor gale at anchor. We survived the night and awoke early to up
Catching up and blowing up! Read More »
This is the second time I have written this blog entry. The first time was at 1800 when I accidentally hit the cancel button and lost it all. How frustrating after a totally tense day. I’ll tell you all about it. Right now it is just after midnight on the Tensaw River Cutoff. A nearly
Second time around. Read More »
To continue: We left off with our arrIval at the famous or infamous Bobby’s Fish Camp. It is only a single dock about 120 feet long on the side of the river. The first three boats that arrive get to tie to the dock and everyone else ties to
More pictures to be added later. This will be the first of two parts covering our travels for 11/8 and 11/9. On Tuesday the fleet pulled out of Demopolis Yacht Basin and moved south. We immediately entered the Demopolis Lock and after that 20BUCK$ and Cbay moved away from the pack. Slow moving boats would
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Demopolis Yacht Basin is a gathering point or perhaps bottleneck on the Loop for several reasons. It is the absolute last place to have any work done on a boat for the next 237 miles. It is the only marina period for the next 237 miles until Mobile, the only town with
The Fleet is forming up again Read More »
