Thursday morning Josh woke up with a sore throat and not feeling very good. I made him some eggs and bacon but that did not help much. He said if we go out that he wanted to stop at the store for some cough drops. I had ice cream on my…
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Heading to Port Aransas – Wednesday, April 1st, 2015 – Costa Grande Port O’Conner to Port Aransas
After looking at the weather (wind) situation, it seemed like today was our best bet. The wind prediction was to get higher every day so we headed out at first light, 7:00 AM, with everything tied down, expecting high winds and our boat to rock n…
Heading to Port Aransas – Tuesday, March 31th, 2015 – Matagorda to Costa Grande Port O’Conner
The plan was to head out early, 7:00 AM, to get across Matagorda Bay before the wind picked up. Well, it was a good plan but we got tied up at the lock for about an hour waiting for three tows to come through. As you can see, the last tow t…
Heading to Port Aransas – Monday, March 30th, 2015 – Matagorda
The wind was predicted to be more than we would like for a comfortable ride across Matagorda Bay so we decided to hang out for another day. I forgot to mention in my earlier post that the mosquitos here are really big and hang out in the grassy a…
Heading to Port Aransas – Sunday, March 29th, 2015 – Freeport to Matagorda
The Freeport Marina office opened at 8 AM so we settled our bill, picked up some ice and started getting ready for our trip to Matagorda.Last Trade lock pictures provided by Ross and EJ Heard.M/V Beachcomber coming up beside Last Trade for picture taki…
On The Move Again – Heading to Port Aransas – Saturday, March 28th, 2015
Last Trade has not been out on the water since our Florida trip and we just had to get her out and do something! The weather is starting to get nice and a trip downcoast to Port Aransas before the heat of summer sounded good! M/V Beach…
12/16/2014 – Tuesday – Taylor Outfall Anchorage to Home
At 6:30 AM we started pulling up anchor. I get anchor duty and the bottom of Taylor Outfall is muddy! Our trip line tangled in the anchor and even with hosing off the anchor chain as it came up, along with wrestling with the trip lie, I had mud a…
12/15/2014 – Monday – Lake Charles to Taylor Outfall Anchorage
We got up and looked out to see what the weather was doing. The winds were light so we said “let’s go” so we were on our way about 7:00 AM. The winds did pick up and at one point and we had one rain downpour. After lunch and just east…
12/13/2014 – 12/14/2014 – Lake Charles
12/13/2014 – SaturdayOur current plan is to stay in Lake Charles until Tuesday. Winds are going to start picking up soon and Monday is calling for heavy rain. We need a good weather window with low winds and no rain to do an anchorage at Ta…
12/12/2014 – Friday – Mermentau River to Lake Charles
It got a little chilly last night so as soon as we got up we dressed, took Teak out to the bow and the got ready to pull up anchor. No coffee is not good! We did make a joke about it asking each other every so often could you please get me …
