Date: Dec 6, 2019
Arrival Time: 1530
Location: Cat
Island, MS
Weather: Slightly cloudy, 60
- 75 degrees
Sea State: Light
chop in the Mississippi Sound
Destination Tomorrow:
Dauphin Island, AL (maybe)
Engine Hours: 1275
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| Art giving thumbs up |
Crew: Art
Comments:
Today felt like the first day of real cruising. We're island hopping. It started off a little shaky getting fussed
at by only one bridge tender, but we only went through one bridge that needed
tending. When we left the Seabrook Marina, at 630, I contacted the L & N bridge tender to see if there was a
curfew, which is a period of time they won’t open during rush hours. She said “No, but you’ll have to wait on this
train that is coming.” I replied that I’d
just idle forward the 1 ½ miles and watch for the train. Around 730, we were contacted by a gentlemen from
the bridge (letting me have it) stating that I needed to step on it or I’d have
to wait a while for the train. I guess
there was a shift change and a lack of communication. Well, like I told Art the bridge tender is always
right. After that we were free….. no
more bridge openings, no more locks. We
did see one last eagle, before leaving Louisiana, which swooped down and
plucked a fish from the water.
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| Heavily wooded Cat Island |
Louisiana
is so beautiful, but we did have a celebratory brewsky once we reached the Longitude
of the Pearl River, in Mississippi. We
entered the Mississippi Pass later in the morning to green slightly choppy
water. We were on a broad or beam reach
most of the day but the wind was pretty light. The main sail was out for a few hours which allowed us to keep our
6.5 knot pace at a lesser rpm. Around 1300 we decide to leave the Mississippi
Sound channel into Cat Island Pass to Cat Island where we anchored in 7 feet of
water around 1530. We anchored on the south
side of the island as a slight northerly is expected to blow in around
midnight. Tomorrow we’d like to make
Dauphin Island, AL, which is about 55 miles from our current anchorage.
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