12/7/2014 - Sunday - New Orleans to Houma

The plan was to leave at 6:00 AM but the wind was blowing 15 to 22 and there was no way we could get out of the slip that we were in without doing damage to our boat or others.  With this kinds of wind we really don't want to do the Mississippi River or the locks either.  Josh and I walked Teak and started looking at the wind situation.  Every once in a while it would die down, then pick back up again.  We took another look at the situation around 7:30 and Josh said "let's think about this, I think we can get out".  WindAlert was indicating low winds in the locks so our only problem was getting out of our slip.  At 8:00 AM we did it!  I untied the two lines we had left that were keep us in the slip and Josh used the thrusters to move us away from the pilings and he put it in reverse and we gunned it out of the slip without touching the poles.  We were on our way!  The plan was to make it to Houma and we were now two hours late leaving and we had bridges and locks to go through.  Sometimes things workout for the best!  We had no problem with the bridge openings and we were the only boat in each lock.  This was unbelievable!  We were through all of this by 10:30 AM.

Not us...

Someone had a bad day...

Downtown NOLA

We usually run Last Trade at 1800 rpm but today we ran her at 1900-2000 rpm whenever we could so we could make Houma by dark.  We did it and you should see the soot on her stern!  Our overheating problem is solved but I guess she needed a good clean out.

Invasion of the Birds 

Brand New ManCave

The airboats were out in full force going though Lafitte.  I think we saw six at one time heading out together.

ManCave aground

Deserted ManCave

Coming into Houma

The Nina and the Pinta were still docked when we arrived along with another sailboat so we had to pass them all and head further in to dock.  We will stay a day in Houma to rest before heading on to Morgan City, LA.

 Columbus beat us here!