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Gulfport Harbor views

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Just some snaps taken while kayaking around Gulfport harbor down on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.

The above shows the replica Ship Island Lighthouse at Jones Park built in 2011 after the original which was lost to a fire in 1972 (and a replica made by the SeaBees had been lost to Katrina). To the left are the gleaming white 87-foot Bollinger-built Maritime Protector-class cutters USCGC Moray (WPB-87331) and USCGC Tiger Shark (WPB-87359) next to CG Sta Gulfport, where you can see the nose of two 45-foot RB-Ms poking out from the boathouse. You can see Customs “Blue Lighting” interceptors to the far left.

A close-up of USCGC Moray (WPB-87331) and USCGC Tiger Shark (WPB-87359). The “color of the boathouse” in Gulfport is rust, btw.

Also buzzing around for the past couple of weeks, no doubt on summer camp, have been a number of USCG Transportable Port Security Boats, surely of the Kiln-based PSU 308. As noted by the USCG, “TPSBs serve to assist in anti-terrorism force protection and shore-side security capable of supporting port and waterway security anywhere the military operates.”

TPSB #32112, sans its normal M2 .50 cals

Of note, #32112 was formerly deployed to Gitmo with PSU 308 back in 2015.

Dead Slow

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I caught a visitor from Alabama in Gulfport harbor over the weekend. I give you the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers survey vessel Irvington socked in by our characteristic February sea smoke.

(Photo by Chris Eger)

Considered a “floating plant” in USACE parlance assigned to District Mobile, the 54-foot S/V Irvington is a high-speed, twin-screw, aluminum hydrofoil-supported catamaran built in 2003 Kvichak in Seattle. She does survey work, largely along the ICW and shipping channels, from Little Rigolets, LA, to Pensacola, FL.

Sails on the Sound

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Took a break and watched some of the youth sailing camp run by the Gulfport Yacht Club. The weather this time of year on the Mississippi Sound, known for changing on you in a heartbeat, produces some striking background for the single masters.

“I have sea foam in my veins, I understand the language of waves,” Jean Cocteau, Le testament d’Orphée