Departure time was 6:30 AM and the water was smooth as glass. A great day for open water!!!!
As we were motoring along, Al said he was going to do a "speed run" so Josh said he would do a "Phil Geren speed run" also! We call it a Phil Geren speed run because two years ago while traveling with several boats, Phil Geren on M/V Awesome One would do a speed run several times each day. This was a 10-15 minute run at a higher (2000-2100) RPM to keep the engine running well (suggested by Cummins after several hours of 1600-1800 RPM motoring) He would get us all on the radio and inform us he was doing to do this. So it's now been named in his honor! As we started doing this our temperature gauge spiked and our alarm went off. This was not good!!!!! We slowed back down and the temperature went back to normal. No more speed runs for us today! Josh will work on this problem once we get to Turner Marine.
M/V Cambria doing their speed run wanting to be in front for a little while!
Every once in a while we would see dolphins, but not like we did two years ago.
Did you see that Boston Whaler? (look closely!) This is the same model and size that we have at home and these people are taking it out to one of the islands! Not sure we would do something like that! Between islands we were having swells on the beam and the wind on the nose. This was very interesting because we kept thinking "where is the ship creating these waves?"
A large Coast Guard plane decided to do several "fly bys". That was a great sight to see! I did miss a good shot because I was below making lunch and did not think they would fly by again.
Thank you Susan for the picture!
As we exited the Dauphin Island Bridge, Susan and Jerry on M/V La Vie Dansante headed off to the Wharf in Alabama to hang out until we start our return trip back to Texas. Shortly after that, Linda called on S/V Agoode Ketch to tell us that they have decided to head to the Wharf also. They plan to keep heading on to Pensacola, FL. The two Tenn-Tom boats are still heading on to Turner Marina to get ready for our new adventure!
As we were heading up the Mobile ship channel we saw a Coast Guard helicopter over the water by Fairhope and we think they were practicing rescue because a diver jumped into the water.
This structure was sitting out in the open water. At first I thought it was an abandoned lighthouse with the light removed but as we went by it appeared to now be a weather station.
Dolphins love jumping in a ship's bow wave but it is very difficult to get good pictures. If you look closely, I got part of the dolphin!
As we were getting closer to our turnoff for Turner Marine there was a dredge working and blocking about half the channel. An oncoming ship called us on the radio to communicate that he was going to meet the dredge at the same time we were and he would "see us on the one" (Landlubber explanation - port side to port side). After thinking about it, Josh looked up the boat name on our AIS to call him back and said "are you kidding me" "I can't call this boat by this name". He finally called "M/V DINKELDIEP" on the radio to tell him that we would hang back on our side of the dredge until he came through. He was a very nice Captain, but we can sure think of better names for a ship!
Turner Marine, here we come!
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