Bob &  Kelly
  M/V Tamara B

Hi All: I would like to thank all the folks who responded, both publicly and privately, to my post for advice on transiting the giWW Calcasieu lock. After considering all, consulting the weather, and charts/coast-pilot, here is the "current" plan (never etched in stone :-) Tomorrow morning, we weigh anchor and proceed south along the Calcasieu ship channel to Monkey Island. Around the back side of the Island, we find a suitable anchorage, or someplace to tie up for the night. On tuesday morning, we set out at daybreak, proceed out the channel for a couple of miles into the Gulf, turn east, and make for "freshwater bayou canal". We should arrive before 4pm, with plenty of light to find a place to drop the hook. The weather looks like it will be favorable tuesday, cloudy with SE winds and 4 foot seas; better than the last time on the Gulf when Tania, our Main Coon Cat shat all over the boat in very rough-confused seas :-) This will let us bypass the broken Calcasieu lock, and make up some time. I will turn off the list again tonight, and expect to be back on-line from Intercoastal city by wednesday. I havn't had so much fun since I was a kid!!! Thanks again.... Regards Bob -- ------------------------- Bob & Kelly M/V Tamara B http://www.tamara-b.org --------------------------