OK we left on 10/31/09 at about 0500 hrs. A most disastrous start. I managed to find an unlit channel marker and bounce off it. Not much damage but a scratch on the Port side.That happened about 0600 hrs. So you can see it was all going well.
We finally made it out into the Gulf and was making good speed motor sailing,and then Murphy shows up. DIRTY FUEL. We continued under sail for 24 hrs and the wind that was suppose to be 10 to 15 NNM turned to NNE 15 to 20 and mostly 20. With building seas and not much sleep I decided to turn to the north and go to the dock closet to us. I ended up in Intracoastal City. But don't look for it on the map,too little of a city.Moved on to Morgan City La.(moron city) to look for a tank cleaner,well after a half day on the phone we called Glenn Kingham from League City TX.
After the young man took 12 hours to drive 6 we got started 10/4/09. Everything went well and we left Morgan City at 0500 hrs. 10/05/09 at 1700 hrs motor died . Rigged up with 5 gal.can and waited 2 hrs. to go through the first set of locks going to New Orleans. We managed to get on the other side of New Orleans at 23oo hrs so tired I just wanted to anchor somewhere. Running down the ICW the fuel pump went out so Karen pumped for 5 hrs. on a squeeze bulb to pump fuel to the engine and here we are in Slidell La. Will get a mechanic Monday and get started in the near future. MIKE