America’s Last Swashbuckler
Published Southwinds ©2013 – Troy Gilbert What does it take to lay claim to an extraordinary life? We all have our moments, but most of us go about our day to day lives quietly heroic for children and...
View ArticleBayou of Pigs
Furthering my research into how New Orleans is fertile ground for international plots and coup d’etats following only Washington D.C. and perhaps Moscow or Havana, the legendary non-fictional Bayou of...
View ArticleHow A New Orleans Regatta Created Cancun
© 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 a Sports Illustrated article on the third...
View ArticleShipwrecked: Then the Storm
© 2013 Troy Gilbert A spider high up in the rigging of his 46′ Creekmore Sloop, Antigone, was his only companion, other than the clouds of mosquitoes following him anytime he crawled out of the...
View Article$100M Youth Boating Facility Opens in Galveston
Published: July 2014 Southern Boating © 2014 Troy Gilbert The love of boating is more often than not a trait passed down from generation to generation. Strike up a conversation at any yacht club or...
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...
View ArticleRunning the Coast with the Hurricane Hunters
Published: August 2014 – BoatU.S. Magazine © 2014 Troy Gilbert Major Brad Boudreax banked his Air Force C-130 and immediately headed south after takeoff, below him in the ICW were legions of boats...
View ArticleArtisinal Boatbuilding on the Gulf
Published: August 2014 – Southern Boating © 2014 Troy Gilbert The Gulf Coast has a long history of artisanal boatbuilding that stretches back to when this coast was first settled. Borrowing native...
View ArticleThe Gulf Coast’s 2nd Boating Season
Published: November 2014 – Southern Boating © 2014 Troy Gilbert As the first cool fronts make their way down from the north and with the holidays right around the corner, the second major boating...
View ArticleThe Deadly 1983 New Orleans Lightship Race
Published – Southwinds ©2015 – All Rights Reserved – Troy Gilbert — In light of the horrific and tragic events that fell on the 57th running of the Dauphin Island Race this past April, it is important...
View ArticleWest End’s Katrina
Published – GulfLatitudes.com ©2015 – All Rights Reserved – Troy Gilbert Immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina – West End – New Orleans “I’ve got ¾ inch nylon lines that I use for storms and the...
View ArticleHavana or Bust!
Published – Sailing World ©2016 – All Rights Reserved – Troy Gilbert Neil and Janet Davies had spent two months preparing their Hunter 42, Midnight Sun II, for Pensacola YC’s race to Havana, Cuba, but...
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