Finally, the River level goes down!

Finally the river level has gone down to the “high water” level, not major or minor flood level any more—hooray!  Larry Chamberlain, Ron Newton, I was able to take the boat to the marina in St Charles Saturday May 18.  The water was still quite high but conditions were not as bad as I feared.  Ron also brought his "map chip" so my chart plotter display showed exactly where the river channel was even if the buoys were underwater, which a few were.

Port Charles Marina had SaSea Sally out of the water by Friday 5/24 but really hadn’t started working on the boat by Friday 5/24—you have to remember Port Charles is a boat yard and boat yards are on their own time zones.  In all fairness, there were a lot of folks who wanted things done to their boats by Memorial Day weekend but that was for naught as it has rained heavily all three days of this holiday weekend.

Port Charles has a long list of items to install and repair, four pages worth of "to dos".  There are two other parties who have major projects--Kate's Covers is fabricating a new canvas enclosure for the fly bridge (up stairs steering station) and Cory, from Lake of the Ozarks, is installing my new Si-Tex active AIS, Garmin radar and two Garmin chart plotters and integrating them with the other existing electronics on board.

All I know for sure is I planned to have the SaSea Sally to Port Charles the third week of April, before their "busy season" started.  By the calendar, SaSea Sally was four weeks late getting there.  Logic says that puts me four weeks behind my June 1 departure schedule but that may be optomistic due to the fact the busy summer boating season has now started.  Probably, leaving Louisiana around the Fourth of July Holiday is a good guess when we will depart if all goes well.

We'll keep you posted on our schedule as we know more!