S/V Longhawk scheduled a bridge opening at 8:00 am so the plan was to leave the dock at 7:30 am. I was walking back to the boat with Teak before heading out and I looked to the side of the dock and saw what looked like a log. I looked again…
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April 20 – 22, 2016 New Orleans
April 20. After a good night’s rest we were ready for a play day. Al, Kay, Diane, Curtis, Sam, Pat and the two of us took the shuttle bus into the French Quarter for the day.Started off with beignets at Cafe du Monde Walked around the Frenc…
April 19, 2016 Lafitte to New Orleans
Today we will do the good ole’ Mississippi river! Kay talked to the locks and they were ready for us. With the Harvey Lock being down, the tows were waiting 16 hours to lock through the Algiers but Kay was talking to the Algiers Lock and In…
April 18, 2016 Houma to Lafitte
We were finally able to head out of Houma heading New Orleans. Kay was our lock communicator and Curtis was our bridge communicator. On the way, Kay got a call from the Industrial Locks (the one on the east side of the Mississippi) telling …
April 15 – 17, 2016 Trip Home and Houma Farewell Party
April 15. Sam and Pat rented a car to drive home to attend an unexpected funeral so we went with them to take care of our mail and other things on our list of things to be done. Short trip but accomplished alot!While we were home taking car…
April 14, 2016 Houma
We thought today would be an unexciting day. NOPE! Boaters will understand some of this. Al and Kay started to install their new windlass first thing in the morning. After lunch Josh connected the current to it and whoo hoo! they are …
April 13, 2016 Houma
What an exciting morning / day! It was raining when we got up and as the morning progressed the rain got harder and harder. I was looking out the big forward windows and saw white mist / smoke coming across our bow. I could not imagin…
April 10 – 12, 2016 Houma
April 10th. We spent our day doing laundry then we rode our bikes to Wal-Mart. Burger King was next to Wal-Mart so we decided to have lunch first and then ride over to Wally World. Wal-Mart was a nice long bike ride but through some not-so-…
April 9, 2016 Houma
Our big excitement for today was to have Sam and Pat Crowder on S/V Longhawk catch up with us. They could not leave at the same time with us but since we stopped at more ports they were able to catch us. Here comes S/V Longhawk! M/V C…
April 8, 2016 Houma
We started our day going over to the hospital for breakfast. After breakfast we received confirmation that Pontchartrain Landing would not be able to take all of us, they only had two slips available. The decision was made to stay in Houma …
