We all headed out around 8:15 AM with S/V Faith as our lead
boat for the day, to arrive at our first bridge opening after the blackout period
was over at 8:30 AM. As we were waiting,
a Coast Guard boat came up, heading out also, and (yes) we were all
boarded. They started with S/V Morning
Star, then moved on to us and then over to S/V Faith. They were very friendly and nice, even Teak
behaved herself (only barked a little!).
We went through two locks with no problems except as we were leaving the
second one, Harvey Lock, our bow thruster stopped working. This is not a good thing! Someone will have to dive (not me!) in
Lafitte with all the gators or Houma with the murky water. One thing that I have learned is when going
through the locks, it’s best to put a bumper all the way to the stern and at
the bow (big bumpers are always better!).
As the locks close and open you tend to rock back and forth. Our bow and stern thrusters are great and I
will hopefully always have them working but as you can see, anything can
happen!
Barry called the owner of the boathouse barge that we tied
to before in Lafitte and he said we could do it again. Since we were going to get into Lafitte so
early in the day and we would have nothing to do, we decided to have a conversation
regrouping on channel 68. The consensus
was to keep going onto Houma even though we would have to travel a couple of
hours in the dark. Josh decided to make some phone calls to see
if we could get a diver in Houma and one place priced him $200.00 or more and
another place priced him $495.00 plus travel time. We are not going to have our bow thruster
checked in Houma! The trip to Houma was
not bad, actually it was a very nice night.
S/V Faith did a great job navigating and “tow talking” for us. All of the
tow captains were very friendly, helpful and worked with us the whole way. We arrived and all tied up at the Houma City
Marina around 7:15 PM.
our next boat (currently under construction)
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