anyone camp off the coast of Mississippi?

http://www.nps.gov/guis/planyourvisit/island-camping.htm

great info thank you!

dose anyone have any recommendations?

horn is the big daddy...you can do a practice run at deer island to get aquanted with island camping. i recommend going with other folks with a chase/gear boat for horn/petit bois. now is the time of year as well as late sept/october(no bugs-cool nights)...

If you go let me know. I would love to sail out to Horn and camp.

When we go it will be my oldest boy (16) and myself for this frist trip and I think we will go Sept/Oct time.

We would love another boat or a few to go on the trip. We don't know if we are going to go for one night or two, or if we do two, maybe island hop, different island each night.

If we go on our own I think we will do the Deer Island run as Bill suggested, for a shake down.

We will have a VHF, SPOT tracker and a GPS with us just incase.

I am thinking we will have about 150 lbs of gear plus 300 lbs of crew on my H18, it will probably be a slow run LOL.

golfdad we will let you know about dates, will you need to do it over a weekend or will week days work?

Jim

It's been a long time, but we used to camp on the MS barrier islands a lot in my 17' monohull daysailor. I was young and dumb, but it can be done safely, and it's a great experiece! Being from NOLA, you probably already know this, but I wouldn't count on it being bug free any time of year. With the right (wrong?) weather conditions, I've seen the biting flies very bad in Sept. The islands can have a myriad of pests from no see ums to huge horse flies. Take lots of Skin So Soft, DEET, and sunscreen! I believe some of the OSYC boys were doing this a couple of times a year with a support boat....you may want to check with them. Do your family a favor and file a float plan (maybe even with the rangers on Horn Is.?) so they have at least some idea where you plan to go.

Personally, I'd never attempt a two-nighter on my Hobie 16 without a support boat.....it would sink if I tried to carry that much beer!

october is sweet...wind, cooler nights.. i prefer the east end for camping and it's useualy a reach to and fro fro ocean springs. the chase boat with the gear is nice too-beer an ice add up! bury you ice chest in the sand coserves ice greatly. get a 3 day fishing permit and file a float plan with the coastguard(allows you your daily limits to accumulate if you fish and it is excellent on the east tip!). camp just off of the dunes so you get the brees...dang, now i want to go...keep us posted!!!

we keep this up we will need a permit LOL

The more the merrier!

Hey man, a bunch of us rag-tag Hobie sailors from OSYC go camping there every spring and fall, along with a few chase/power boats to haul the coolers. We sail out, swim, fish, etc and have a blast. There's 3 Hobie 18s from OSYC, mine, and two other guys as well. Shoot me a note sometime, bring your boat over and we'll get it squared away... I put a spin on my 18 last summer, it was an SX too but I put the standard mast on for competiting in standard Hobie class events... Coastrat, Golfdad and RattlenHum (Jerome) know our exploits to the islands.

Water is crystal clear, fishing is great, as is exploring the island. Looking back at the mainland you feel far away and peaceful, but relatively close. You even get cell/data service if you wanted.

One of the park rangers who lives part time on Horn is also a Hobie 18 sailor... so you know he's a great guy. 🙂

Cheers, Rob.

PS - don't let the "YC" in OS... deter you... no one cares, just bring your boat and sail.

Edited by robpatt on Apr 22, 2013 - 10:38 AM.

Rob

As soon as I have it all back together I will meet up with you guys and make sure I have it right. I have her all in pieces right now, any recommendations? She doesn't leak, no cracks that I have found so far, we are still sanding off 2 layers of what can be best described as house paint. Found some repaired bow damage, but it was well done. Anything else I should look at?

Thanks

Edited by shipchips1 on Apr 22, 2013 - 06:03 PM.

Rob,

Will you guys let me race in the long distance races with the SX mast, wings and a non standard tramp?

shipchips1 wrote: Rob,

Will you guys let me race in the long distance races with the SX mast, wings and a non standard tramp?

Now that's funny! Dude, they'll let you sail in a goat-puke green Yugo with a barber pole for a mast and a sail made from the sheet you stole from your motel. Chances are all the beer and chicken will be gone before you get to the island, though.....better carry your own in the trunk!

LOL, someone has to come in last!!!

I think the provisional D-PN for the Yugo will be in the range of Avagadro's number......6.0221413e+23.

And one more thing I remember about camping on the MS barrier islands....If you don't store your food securely, those fat-ass racoons out there will rob you blind when you pass out drunk. Nothing worse than being hot, dehydrated, bug-bitten, sunburned, and hungover except being hot, dehydrated, bug-bitten, sunburned, hungover, and out of powdered donuts.

P.S. I hope your 16 year old is open-minded; otherwise this might not be the right crowd for an island trip. One weekend could result in years of therapy! 😉

Edited by rattlenhum on Apr 24, 2013 - 12:12 PM.

LMAO!!!! 😆

We will just add it to the years of therapy from how he was raised, he won't know the difference. LOL

As the fleet capt at OSYC I say put your boat back together, hook it to the back of your Yugo bring what ever tramp you can find and come on over for Slip to Ship on Memorial Day weekend and become part of the brotherhood.

cat136 wrote: bring what ever tramp you can find

Sounds like words to live by. :prost:

your tramp better be legal, or else we'll be forced to confiscate it as illegal booty.

Your just have to much fun with this LOL!!!!!

shipchips1 wrote: Rob,

Will you guys let me race in the long distance races with the SX mast, wings and a non standard tramp?

In the interest of full disclosure....Unless there is a separate fleet (where class legality is more of an issue) for the H18s, you'd be racing in an open fleet under the Portsmouth handicap system:

http://offshore.ussailing.org/Portsmouth_Yardstick/Current_Tables.htm

Thus, you can race what you want, but it is your responsibility to register with the correct Portsmouth Number, modified if necessary to account for non-legal equipment, weight, etc. For Hobie 18 SX (H18SX), D-PN 71.3....that accounts for the wings and mast (standard on SX), correct? Technically, you are probably supposed to take a knock (OTHER=0.995?) for the non-Hobie tramp.

Now back to reality......1. If the Portsmouth junk gives you a headache, ask the Fleet Captain to figure your number for you....his contract requires him to honor any request (no matter how trivial) of a visiting yachtnman. 2. Rob won't protest you or confiscate your illegal tramp so long as he beats you, so you may have to let him win.

rattlenhum wrote: 1. If the Portsmouth junk gives you a headache, ask the Fleet Captain to figure your number for you....his contract requires him to honor any request (no matter how trivial) of a visiting yachtnman.

Ohhhhh Fleet Captain....... I've got a request.............. 😆

again, now worries... I don't usually sail class legal either, cause I want to keep my "marginal" condition class hobie sails as good as possible for the rare occasion we do host a legit hobie event...

that said, man, I take all kinds of ratings hits/adjustments...
- I'm under minimum weight with crew, so that's a hit
- my mainsail is not class legal (but not more than 5% over.. so that's a hit
- and when I put the spin on... of course I take a hit for that...

I take the adjustments so that "IF" I happen to beat someone, they can't come back and say it's cuz I didn't take the appropriate ratings adjustments...

They're easy to calculate and apply, and keep everything fair... and we're happy to do it for you... and swappign out tramps doesn't make the boat faster... you'd just rate as a stock H18SX... 71.3, whereas the basic starting number for a normal H18 is 71.4.. before any adjustment...

bottom line... don't worry, we like to take 'er easy...

Sounds great, sending off the OSYC app this week, I will bring the kids out for a family night or maybe some sailing next week. I am still grounded for a few more months so the boat stays home, Doctors orders. But can't wait to meet you guys. Thank you for all the help.

Thanks
Jim

cool.... I might be heading your way tomorrow in fact to try and pickup this hobie 14 mast:

http://neworleans.craigslist.org/boa/3745188420.html

if the guy e-mails me back... I need his area code, could be anything?

robpatt wrote: cool.... I might be heading your way tomorrow in fact to try and pickup this hobie 14 mast:

http://neworleans.craigslist.org/boa/3745188420.html

if the guy e-mails me back... I need his area code, could be anything?

Only NO area code that matches that phone number is 504

Should be 504 for NO, 985 is the rest of the state.

thanks... mast turned to to be BENT and hulls were shot... great NOLA sailor who came to the 1699 regatta took a look at it for us....

oh, Jim... I shot you a reply note, check your beachcats message... cheers, -Rob.