Here’s our new plans. We’ve paid for a month’s rent at the marina in Lake Charles. We had another mech. prob. when the cutlass bearing gave out. For some reason (we think we may have hit a crab trap) the rubber sleeve slid out of the brass bushing so our prop shaft was quite loose in the strut, making a terrible metal to metal clanging noise. 
We managed to get a tow the 30 miles from Cameron to the marina in L.C. which has a 35 ton Travel Lift which could haul us out so we could fix it which we did Mon. & Tue. Eleven hundred dollars later we’re back in the water and good to go again, but we’re not going yet. We’re going to fly to Cozumel, Mex. via DFW. We’ll be in the DFW area for a week, including Thanksgiving, before continuing on to Mexico so we hope to get to visit everybody there sometime. After we get back here we’ll continue on to Florida. Depending on how things go we’ll decide where and when we’ll go from there. We’ll eventually get back to Mexico if we stay ahead of the boat repair vs. cruising budget curve.
David and Claudia
We’ve seen very little rain, until today that is. But we weren’t traveling today so it was no problem. Right now we’re near Cameron, Louisiana. We attempted to head offshore yesterday afternoon, but the forecast was in error and wind and wave conditions quickly got beyond what we were willing to tolerate, so we turned around and headed back up the Calcasieu River to an anchorage we had heard about. It was after dark but with radar, the nav. software, GPS and our fabulous night vision scope we had no problem finding the waterway and winding around it to the charted spot. We were exhausted so we decided just to take today off and have stayed here resting all day. We’re still having fuel line problems so we’re now talking about going back up to Lake Charles and renting the slip in the marina for a month (a lot cheaper than the daily transient rate). This will give us plenty of time to get the known problems fixed (and tested) and finish some other projects that we’ve needed to do. We also may leave the boat there and fly to Mexico since Jim, Edith and the Katies will be there on their trip the first week in December. It is unlikely that we’ll make it there in time with our boat and don’t want to miss seeing them there. We are not in a hurry to get anywhere and we’re trying hard to keep it that way. This email is wonderful. We’re really glad it’s working so well (albeit slow).
David and Claudia
a historical sailing adventure
We managed to get a tow the 30 miles from Cameron to the marina in L.C. which has a 35 ton Travel Lift which could haul us out so we could fix it which we did Mon. & Tue. Eleven hundred dollars later we’re back in the water and good to go again, but we’re not going yet. We’re going to fly to Cozumel, Mex. via DFW. We’ll be in the DFW area for a week, including Thanksgiving, before continuing on to Mexico so we hope to get to visit everybody there sometime. After we get back here we’ll continue on to Florida. Depending on how things go we’ll decide where and when we’ll go from there. We’ll eventually get back to Mexico if we stay ahead of the boat repair vs. cruising budget curve.
Travels of Ma'alahi 