Category Archives: Mississippi

Gulfport

We made it to Gulfport, Mississippi today…in a dense fog. The radar, GPS, CAPN nav. software and autopilot made it possible, and almost easy. We wouldn’t have traveled in fog at all except that the forecast is for deteriorating weather and our anchorage wasn’t that good. We expected it to burn off by mid-morning (because that’s what NOAA said) but it didn’t and, in fact, it’s still here! Luckily, the tow boats don’t tend to travel in the fog so except for the many dolphins that helped lead the way (at one point we had 6 of them at our bow), we were mostly alone out there. It was really cool sitting at the nav station below and steering the boat with the autopilot by radar and computer. We plan to stay here thru Christmas and leave after that when the weather allows. More later.

David and Claudia