It was a short run to Fairhope. But we would be crossing Mobile Bay. The winds were still blowing from the North so we had beam seas when we turned East. We had plotted out the course but had not taken into account the effect of three to four days of North winds. Where the charts showed 7 feet of water there was only 4 feet, and we were dredging our way across the Bay. We did not realize our mistake until we left the main channel and headed East to Fair Hope. Thankfully the area with only 4 feet was just a short section.
When I turned on the stabilizers to deal with the beam seas they did not work. I had tried to hook up the engine instruments to the TZtouch and had used the wrong connection. It was to bumpy to fix it now so we just spent an hour and a half without the extra comfort. The seas were only about 2 feet.
When we got to Fairhope we had to drive bow first into the slip due to the low water. The boat could not get all the way in, but it was fine the next day after the wind shifted.
We took the courtesy car and checked out the town. The area reminds of our home in Mandarin, lots of big oak trees and moss. The town is known for all the flowers, they are on ever corner. I didn’t get a great picture so you will have to take my word for it, they are beautiful. We had a late lunch at the Gumbo Shack. One of those little spots that has been features on the “dinner show”. The second day we did some boat maintenance, I put all the cables back in order so the stabilizer could work, then went to dinner and a movie with Doug and Betty from “Sea Biscuit”. The new 007 movie was out, it was a little disappointing. Not enough gadgets for me. We enjoyed our night out with Doug and Betty and lookforward to seeing them this winter in South Florida.
