Dog River Marina was hit pretty hard by Hurricane Nate recently and they were flooded as well as had a lot of wind. This is more of a working yard than a resort type of marina. The long time owner recently passed away and left the marina and business to the employees. I don't know the details but the place could use a major infusion of capital as almost everything is pretty run down. Their fuel prices are the best around and the docks are older fixed wood docks with pilings. Everything worked fine and we enjoyed our neighbor Rico who is travelling solo on a 27 foot sailboat and wants to ship the boat to California this winter. Quite the character.
Debbie spent the day cleaning and I spent the day in the engine room tending batteries, fixing hose clamps, checking and filling fluids and ordering parts for the watermaker. I made another bicycle ride over to West Marine for some more engine zincs and dielectric grease. Its nice to have a West so close when you forget something you needed. Cocktails on the aft deck to watch the sun set and then dinner aboard. We even have very good TV reception here so we watched some network TV for the first time in months. We need to get underway fairly early in the morning to cross Mobile Bay as it is not deep and the tide is at 6:00 AM. The tide is not much here 2-3 feet and only two tides a day instead of the typical 4 in most locations. The channel coming off of the shipping channel is only about 6 feet deep and may have been affected by the recent hurricane but I don't like seeing 1 foot on the depth sounder very often.
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| This is the transient dock and fuel dock at Dog River where we stayed for two days |
One of our boat neighbors was an 85 foot Palmer Johnson with crew of three aboard moving the vessel from the Great Lakes to the Bahamas for the winter. You can rent her for $25-30K a week PLUS EXPENSES. Below is a pic from their website.
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| Bet ya she took on more fuel than us. The captain said she was thirsty! |
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