The crew spells it like this: COLD!!!!!

The morning after Thanksgiving we departed our great anchorage and headed for Gulfport, MS to wait out a cold front. We left the relative shelter of the ICW and entered the Mississippi Sound, a long, open, shallow bay. The wind built on our nose, the waves built to around 4 feet with a 2-3 second period and our speed plummeted. We shipped green water over the bow, over the deck and occassionally over the enclosure.

Velcro wished he had died. Even the sink threw up! The thru hull on the sink in the forward head was not closed and when we slammed down hard enough through a wave salt water came UP the drain and drenched everything from the headliner to the walls and floors.

After 9 hours of sloppily slogging to windward we arrived at the Bert Jones Small Craft Marina in Gulfport. It is a very nice, very new and very empty place. It was built with post Katrina money and has about 500 slips which are currently less than 5% occupied.

While in Gulfport we rented a car, did errands, saw 2 movies and drove to Gulf Shores, AL to see our friends Drew & Stephanie. They left League City about when we did and are about 2 days ahead of us by boat. We had a lovely time socializing and eating at the iconic LuLu's Restaurant (Jimmy Buffet's crazy sista).

In the meantime, the cold front went through leaving plenty of cold behind. Last night it hit freezing. Tomorrow night it's supposed to get down to 29 degrees.....and we have to anchor out for the next 2 nights. So, we think Mississippi is COLD and we look forward to getting to the Sunshine state, where it had better get warmer.