Days 199-203 Demopolis,AL to Mobile Bay, AL

Tuesday November 4–Saturday November 8, 2025

TUESDAY

We had yet another mechanic take a look at the port engine today. It’s proving to be a tricky one—sporadic issues are always the hardest to pin down! In addition to needing new fuel injectors (which apparently no one can seem to find 😔), we’re still not sure if there’s something else going on. The mechanic isn’t certain either.

Since getting the parts could take quite a while, we decided to hold off until we reach Pensacola, where we’ll be leaving the boat for a couple of months. Thankfully, we’ve already connected with a great mechanic at the marina there who’s willing to order the parts for us. The mechanic assured us waiting until Pensacola is not an issue or harmful to the engine, just less efficient🥹

For now, everyone agrees it’s fine to keep going as is. So, this afternoon we grabbed the courtesy car, stocked up on provisions, and even squeezed in a peaceful walk through the woods. We came across a beautiful clearing—too pretty not to snap a photo! 🌿📸

This evening, the six of us—David & Candace from Too Nasty, Bonnie & Louis from Goldilocks, and us—gathered for dinner at a lively Mexican restaurant. So much laughter, good food, and great company! Not sure when our wakes will cross again—hopefully sometime in January or February down in Florida.

What a wonderful night! 🌮✨

WEDNESDAY

Bright and early start to our day. We left the marina a bit after 7am to make the 8am lockage. It was just a few miles downstream. This is the only lock we have today. There is only one more lock before Mobile Bay and then we are DONE with ALL the locks! Yippee!!

All of the mechanics have been telling us that speed is what this boat likes and we should continue to “run them up” so we’ve been running it a bit faster at least once or twice a day. Of course, we do this today and all is going well the first 15 minutes, then the turbo charger on the engine we’ve been having issues with went out. UGH! Well, now we have another item to add to the list in Pensacola. Wonder how expensive that will be🙄

The rest of the day went just fine. We traveled over 70 miles today. The current was our friend, but it was still a long day. I started the task of making new isinglass curtains. We ended our day in Bashi Creek. Cute and serene anchorage that fits about 3 boats our size or smaller. There are 3 of us all in a row (it’s very narrow) using both bow and stern anchors. There are two larger boats just off the channel anchored in another designated anchorage as well we all went through the lock together.

THURSDAY

We all got another early start for another long day. The Tombigbee River gets a little old since there is not much differentiation of senery along the way. Normally by now the fall leaves would be spectacular and that would have made such a huge difference. We went through the final lock!!! We ended our day at an anchorage called Three Rivers Lake. Another 70+ mile day.

FRIDAY

Today was a 40 mile day. We ended at Little Lizard Creek. Another peaceful anchorage but boy did the humidity and temp change. The mosquitos came out and so did the no-see-ums! Nooooo!

SATURDAY

We left our anchorage with the plan to go to Dog River inlet, but looking at the weather we decided to go through all of Mobile Bay to get into the Intra Coastal. The change of scenery was very welcome. Although the Tenn-Tom and Tombigbee were full of nature, it just got to be long. The winds will be picking up from the north tomorrow for a couple of days enough that you would not want to be in the bay. We ended at Bon Secour River South Anchorage. 52 miles. Very quiet bay near a “fix it” type boat yard.

This stretch was 226 miles.