M/V
Last Trade headed out of The Wharf Marina at 5:45 AM with S/V Faith and Morning
Star about 3 miles ahead of us. The
temperature outside was 37 degrees and we had some low lying fog over the water. The wind prediction was South East at 6 knots
so we thought this would be a good day to do our Mobile Bay and some of
Mississippi Sound crossing. The first
part of Mobile Bay was calm but as we went further west we started to have rolling
waves and they were hitting us on our stern.
Teak and I looked at each other and said this is not going to be a good
day! Even our autopilot was not happy,
it sounded like we had a sick chicken on board! (our autopilot squawks like a
chicken anyway!) Josh ended up steering
until we went through the Dauphin Island Bridge where the water was calmer. All of us were happy, even the chicken who once
again took over the helm. We arrived at the
Point Cadet marina around 2:00 PM. For
us, Biloxi has better slips than the old Bert Jones marina (now named the
Gulfport Small Craft Harbor). Gulfport’s
slips are way too high off the water and the finger piers are too short, especially
for boats that have mid ship exits and are traveling with dogs. Biloxi’s slips
are lower and have a little longer finger piers. Josh and I helped S/V Faith and Morning Star
tie up when they arrived around 3:30 PM and Ross and EJ, friends from Clear
Lake who were in the area visiting EJ’s mother came by to visit. EJ and her mother decided to gamble a little
then we all went to the casino buffet. The
crab legs were good!!!!
Were you possibly in the Gulfport Yacht Club and not in the Gulfport Small Craft Harbor? The YC has short finger piers but the SCH has slip length finger piers. They are extremely high when the tide is out though. We have had to use a bosuns chair to get people aboard and we use the Yeti cooler to step up onto the dock.
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