On Thu, 14 Sep 2006 11:38:40 -0700, "Capt. JG"
wrote:

In the middle of the bay???


The Mississippi Sound is 12-15 miles wide and it has about four north
south channels and an east west channel down the middle. St Joe's Bay
is probably about six miles wide at the widest point and it has a
channel running diagonally from the point to Port St. Joe and another
going the length of the bay.

Many fishing boats that ordinarily would leave the channel are using
it in the sound post Katrina to avoid any obstructions that have not
been cleared, marked or noted in notices to mariners.

I personnally have tacked up Gulfport small craft channel (at one
point about 40' across), with a dead engine in a boat drawing 5' and
had teenagers on sunfish screaming starboard at me. They might need
to go back to the sailing school and learn the meaning of "least
manueverable".

Frank