Today we pack up the truck with whatever we are taking along on Pathfinder and depart tomorrow for Orange Beach and my brother Jim's house where the boat is moored. We have placed a few items like bedding and foul weather gear and our anchor on the boat during previous trips over there, but tomorrow and the next day will be focused on provisioning the boat.
A gentleman who had just purchased a boat on the Mississippi Gulf coast and wanted to get it up the Tombigbee Waterway contacted me for assistance, and we more or less decided that if your schedules meshed that he would follow along behind us. In the end, we delayed because of adverse river conditions on the Mississippi due to record rains, and he went ahead with an experienced friend to help him. Now he is reporting back with generally acceptable conditions on the Tombigbee.
Our plan at this point is to depart Orange Beach Wednesday, June 1st, my birthday, grab about 125 gallons of diesel at The Wharf 10 miles along on our run, and get to the Tensaw anchorage just north of Mobile 66 miles along on our planned 1400-mile journey.
This is Calypso our trusty 1972 Grand Banks 42 purchased in San Diego, CA in 1986 and sold in Panama City, FL in 2015
Frolic
Frolic, our 2005 Mainship 30 Pilot II replaced Calypso in 2015
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What follows is a summary of all the emails we sent to family and friends during a trip we took three years ago. I wanted to include it her...
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I am sorry, but I miscalculted fuel use and am reposting this for the sake of correctness. We used 4.0 gal/hour and made 2.0 MPG, which is ...
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Thursday 14 January 2021 Southport, FL We were underway at 0615 from an entirely peaceful night with no wind after sunset with just enough...
