Golf Shores, Alabama

 

During our stay in Mobile, Richard did an oil change on the engine and the generator….the marina was able to sell us the oil and had a disposal site for the used oil.  Good job captain 👨‍✈️.

We celebrated American Thanksgiving with fellow Loopers and Canadians, Janet and Glen from Grand Cru 🇨🇦, pot luck style. 

On our last day we Ubered into Mobile to visit the USS Alabama Memorial Park. 

We started at the aircraft hanger,

 inside and out…….mostly WWII era. 

Next we toured the WWII submarine, named Drum. We went down the forward hatch and walk through to the back.  Sleeping quarters, torpedo bays, kitchen/eating areas, control/navigation area….all on one level, then up the aft hatch. Tight quarters, not for the claustrophobic 😬

Last but not least we toured the battleship USS Alabama, who last fired her guns on Tokyo and was part of the landing party when the Japanese signed the peace treaty. It was very cool from the bridge and the top cannons to the mess hall, sick bay, barbershop and down to the engine room…...a real floating city. 

We left this morning to cross Mobile Bay. 

3 1/2 hour crossing in wide open waters. A little choppy but a mostly pleasant crossing. 

The ICW, Intra Coastal Waterway. 

Arrived at Homeport marina in Gulf Shores Alabama. 

We had lunch at Lulu’s, Jimmy Buffet’s sister’s restaurant. I had the crab melt and a margarita and Richard had the gumbo and a shrimp po’boy with a local draft. 

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Tomorrow we are having our boat hauled out to change the zincs, power wash the bottom and tighten or replace the packing on the rudder. 🤞