Mobile Bay -- ride out storm and frigid weather coming in from the northwest

Storms on the Bay

Turner Marine was at the rendezvous at Joe Wheeler in October. They are a pretty barebones marina but have a courtesy car so we can see a little of Mobile. Will do a lot of laundry, a little maintenance and mainly hide from rough seas. Mobile Bay is not the place you want to be when the winds are high. This makes for rough waves and the chill cuts right through you. So we remain in dock at Turner Marine. We went to a restaurant in Mobile called Felix’s Fish Camp and Grill and had a wonderful lunch of clam chowder and grilled snapper. We loved Felix’s in New Orleans so we were drawn to the name anyway—turned out there is no connection. But the food was great—we would go back. When we came back, Dream II and Misty Lynn were entering Turner to seek refuge from the seas and weather. They said it was really rough in the bay and they were glad to find terra firma. While we were gone the sailboat showed up too. The crew from Misty Lynn and Dream II reported tonight that Rick—captain of the sailboat—was coming into Turner Marine off the channel, got waked (rocked) by a big boat, his boom broke and fell on his shoulder barely missing his head. Lucky to be alive and in and out of consciousness, he had been drifting in a circle for HOURS before someone noticed and called the Coast Guard. He was towed into Turner and taken to the hospital. He is OK but his boat is completely disabled and he is out of commission (no broken bones but sore—very lucky). Rick broke all the rules: no life jacket, by himself, no communication—really glad he is OK and glad he is off the water. Notes: Vanderbilt beat Tennessee and Peyton got beat by Brady—glad I have another sport this fall. It is sad –even Jimmy Johnson won another NASCAR title—Fitz and I are starting to think it is us--everyone we are for loses.