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Tuesday August 12th 9:54 AM  This morning around 8:15 SYL filled back up to the brim with gas at the “Fishing Capital of the World” fuel dock / cleaning station….. she took 76 gallons. The trip home from Venice to Kemah is almost 100 miles closer and should be down current so we have plenty […]

We are sitting in the smelliest place in Louisiana… Venice Marina.  There are more fish carcasses freshly cleaned.. bloated and floating and in trash barrels here than I have seen anyplace on earth.  It truly must be the advertised “Fishing capital of the world”  Out at the end of the pier… with the AC on […]

4AM Monday very early morning:  Its amazing that we are still bucking a current, not much anymore but its still there. Almost 24 hours of head current has been a gas eater for us.  We have been at almost full power for a long time trying to beat our way out of this malady.  I […]

It’s almost 3AM Sunday morning, I’ve been on watch since 1AM. We have encountered patches of floating sea grass all along our route.. about once a shift we raise the motors to make sure they are free of debrisfinding and often find sea grass in front of the prop.  About 20 minutes ago I litterally […]

Russ arrived to help us sail to New Orleans.  Leaving Clearwater at 7:30 PM Friday evening we set the engines to push us at 5.5 knots, that’s a little over half throttle to optimize fuel burn.  Friday night winds were almost non-existent.  Fortunately we had a good current making 3 to 4 tenths a knot […]

We ordered Chinese food delivery and Jono just left to go get it from the dock office.  Russ is on the airplane and we are fully provisioned.  I found gas cans in town (6 miles away) 3 of it was accessible by dingy, I walked the other 3 to the Car Quest auto parts store.  The […]

I have conformation from Chris Parker that my weather estimation is correct and that nothing will threaten the Gulf between here and New Orleans, it should be a placid run all the way across.  He said we might get to sail some Monday but probably not before then. So I need to find some gas cans […]

Jono and I walked the touristy Clearwater pier area this evening.. just got back.  We looked and looked for dancing girls but only found acrobats, fire eaters and jugglers… no dancers so we were out of luck there……. Russ is flying in to Tampa tomorrow to help us bring the boat home.  With 3 of […]

1:45 PM Jono worked on a rip in the Bimini and I accomplished my boat chores as well.  I changed oil in the main engines and overhauled the blinky carb on the starboard engine.  She starts and idles like a champ now.  Its amazing how much corn by-products came out of that carb.  The problem started […]

A quick revision to yesterdays blog, Jono told me our top speed was 11.9 not 11.5 coming from the Bahamas. I’ve been looking at the map, and still have some deciding to do, but Clearwater to New Orleans is looking like a good route to me.  Instead of 241 miles from here to Destin its […]