Lafitte Anchorage – Barataria

Date: Dec 4, 2019                                            

Time:     Arrival 1300        

Location:  Lafitte  29 44.628 N, 90 8.140 W

Sea State:  ICW

Destination: Tomorrow -Seabrook Harbor and Marine

Engine Hours:    1260                                                      

Crew:    Art

The dink hanging in its cradle at Lafitte

Comments:  Today was pretty uneventful as we are settling into routines.  Art does most of the cooking and I the dishes, which we are better at.  We get up, punch the coffee button, eat breakfast, brush with Uncle Tom’s, check the engine fluids and belts, turn on the Spot, the engine and instruments, check the AIS for traffic, then pull up the anchor or untie the lines and go on our merry way.  I add things to my maintenance list throughout the day and work on them when we arrive. Finally, we do our homework for the following day.  

We left Houma at approximately 620.  The keel was in the mud throughout the night so we waited for the first barge to pass and rode it's displacement wake out of the dock.  Our day was interrupted by only two bridges, the Bayou Blue Pontoon Bridge, at mile 50 and the West Larose lift bridge at mile 35.  The bridge tenders were very nice and we transited both without event.  After arriving I wired the AIS to operate from its own electrical switch, enabling it to remain on without all navigational equipment.  This was done to save energy and remain on while anchored during the night.   Tomorrow’s destination is Seabrook Marina on the Inner Harbor Navigation Canal, in New Orleans.  This should give us an early start toward the Mississippi Sound through the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet.