Voyages of Annie, Wednesday, October 24

Good morning from Lake Ponchartrain.

Have been here since Friday. Robert and his wife jumped ship on Sunday and went back to Alexandria and will maybe rejoin somewhere down the line.So I am alone. The Westerbeke distributor is a block away and am trying to get the generator issue resolved. Ordered parts Monday and they came yesterday. Got them installed and it still won’t run.So we order more parts and they won’t be here till Thursday. Hopefully that will be the end of it. Weather has been really crappy. Rainy cold and wind has been howling. Wind is out of the north and I will have to wait for the wind to swing to the prevailing southeasterly direction before taking off. I will probably have to run to Biloxi by myself as I have not found anyone that can go with me. Everyone I have talked to has this terrible disease called a job. Had that disease once myself but got cured.

Its about 100 miles of open water between here and Biloxi. Navigation is pretty straight forward but I work about the weather, squalls etc.There are some shoals and a few wrecks but everything is well marked on the charts. Will watch the weather closely. Thursday is supposed to be a good day. I have made arrangements with he maritime museum there for dockage for a few days. I have been working on Annie for the last few days. Doing lots of little things that needed to be done. Too cold and wet to do anything outside. There’s not anything close by here except for a few marine stores that are reopening after Katrina. This area got hit pretty hard. Since there’s not much else to do I will probably get on the bike and go see what I can see.

Ron Beberniss on Annie Lake Ponchartrain, New Orleans, Louisiana

Oh yeah, there was another boat in front of mine…