Reading the Wind – Sailing the Mississippi Coast
Published – Mississippi Magazine ©2013 – Troy Gilbert Like a great novel, sailors read the wind on the water. Wind lines are new chapters that guide and propel them toward grand destinations and...
View ArticleMississippi’s Marina Boom
Published: July 2013 BoatU.S. Magazine © 2013 Troy Gilbert The Mississippi Coast is clearly turning their gaze towards the water for economic development. Three massive public marinas are either...
View ArticleMississippi’s Gulf Islands Restoration
Published: October 2013 Southern Boating © 2013 Troy Gilbert Stringing along the Mississippi Gulf Coast is a series of undeveloped barrier islands that make up a large portion of the Gulf Islands...
View ArticleCruising Bay St. Louis: A Place Apart
Published: February 2014 Southern Boating © 2014 Troy Gilbert Bay St. Louis is one of those idyllic, sleepy little Gulf Coast towns where the sound of the L&E railroad’s horn and the breeze...
View ArticleMississippi Gulf Island Expedition
Published: June 2014 – BoatU.S. Magazine © 2014 Troy Gilbert Faulkner sailed them, as did the pirate Jean Lafitte. They were the first islands Jimmy Buffet knew and dreamed of as a kid in Pascagoula...
View ArticleJunior Sailing’s “Katrina Babies”
Published: June 2014 – BoatU.S. Magazine © 2014 Troy Gilbert The Mississippi Coast is the birthplace of yacht racing on the Gulf Coast with the first regattas tracking back to 1849 in Pass Christian...
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