Editor’s Note: Deborah Klaus of the Mobile Alabama Buccaneer Yacht Club sent Around the World of Sailing this summary on September 12.

I am the Recording Secretary for Buccaneer Yacht Club in Mobile, AL on Mobile Bay. Yes. We were heavily damaged by Hurricane Katrina, but we are working diligently to restore our facility. Work parties composed of members of the club have been working everyday since Katrina cleared the coast.

We still have a mess, but one of our buildings is functional, in fact, we restored a/c to it last night. We have pulled boat parts and sails from under wharves, around pilings, under the building and from the street and stored them in our rebuilt boat house.

One by one boats are being placed back in the water and floated to their slips. We are waiting for a crane to arrive to get the largest of them returned to the water. We are an all volunteer organization so it has taken all of us pulling together to get our homes back to normal and still work on the club. You can tell your readers that the Skull and Crossbones still flies at Buccaneer Yacht Club and we will be a force to contend with on the water!

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