West End’s Katrina
Published – GulfLatitudes.com ©2015 – All Rights Reserved – Troy Gilbert “I’ve got ¾ inch nylon lines that I use for storms and the boat gets so much pressure on […]
Published – GulfLatitudes.com ©2015 – All Rights Reserved – Troy Gilbert “I’ve got ¾ inch nylon lines that I use for storms and the boat gets so much pressure on […]
Published – Southern Boating ©2015 – All Rights Reserved – Troy Gilbert “I’ve got ¾ inch nylon lines that I use for storms and the boat gets so much pressure […]
Published: May 2014 – Sailing World © 2014 Troy Gilbert Drawing pistols at dawn, two sailors acknowledged their seconds standing by and marched off fifteen paces beneath the sprawling moss […]
Published: July 1988 Mid-Gulf Sailing © 2014 Troy Gilbert By Walter Atkinson The yacht Equation under the command of Buddy Friedrichs finished the 1988 Pensacola to Isla Mujeres Regatta al […]
Published: 2013 BoatU.S. Magazine © 2013 Troy Gilbert Anne Rheams, the Deputy Director of the Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation had a vision for the iconic lighthouse that rested at the […]
© 2013 Troy Gilbert The history of how a little known regatta that started in New Orleans put the first feet on the sand and helped to create Cancun. In […]
Published – GulfLatitudes.com ©2013 – All Rights Reserved – Troy Gilbert “Gentlemen, this will be the last time we will be together, for tonight I will drown.” Fisherman Andre Gilbeaux, […]
Published: July 2013 Marina Dockage Magazine © 2013 Troy Gilbert A Big Drifter in New Orleans This August, eight years will have passed since Hurricane Katrina sideswiped New Orleans and […]
Eight years after Hurricane Katrina and West End still lies unrepaired Published – The Lens ©2013 – Troy Gilbert While the Livaudais Plantation was being parceled out in the 1830s […]
Published: March 2013 Southern Boating © 2013 Troy Gilbert Cruising past centuries old Spanish forts lost and subsiding in the marsh grass with brown pelicans perched on the bones of […]