Quiet Company Adventures: Dog River To Mobile

It's Wednesday and we decided to leave the dock and go north to Mobile. Before we got out of Dog River I practiced close quarters maneuvering with QC. To date we have mostly done Cruising but very little maneuvering in close quarters. Maneuvering any boat in close quarters can be quite challenging with many forces acting on the boat to move it off course. You not only have the wind trying to move the boat in a given direction but you also have the water moving (because of the current) . So as they say you need to practice, practice, practice.

After an hour or so of practice we decide to move north.

As we exited mobile bay north into the Mobile River the area gets quite busy. The ocean going ships that carry containers and other goods load and offload in this area.

It's fascinating to watch the container ships load and unload their cargo. The crane operators obviously have much skill.

There were also several shipyards performing maintenance and repairs on large ships.

Mobile has a convention center right in the middle of all this Commercial Maritime activity.

This particular boat was really interesting.

It is obviously built for speed! Our tax dollars at work....

With all the rain that has been experienced in the area the dredge operators are quite busy maintaining the water depth needed for navigation.

As soon as we made it through the commercial ship area moving north, it was time to anchor for the night and relax. We selected Anchorage using Active Captain that was off the main commercial channel. We hailed a tow boat captain on the radio and he indicated this spot by Twelve Mile Island would be good since the tow boats cant come through here because its to shallow for they but not for us, we only need 3 feet of water. This would be a good place to rest for the night.