1. -February, 2012 We started out, but after 2 days one of the diesel main engines failed and needed a re-build that took 2 months. Given the delay, we decided to spend the Fall Semester at Texas A&M University at Qatar. Terry worked for three months as Interim COO of the branch campus, and John Taught Introductory Physical Geology to 11 Petroleum Engineering majors
2. - We had hoped to leave in February of this year, but John had a little health scare in mid January. Not to worry! He seems fine now and is leaving with the doctors full knowledge. So after a 4 month delay and no re-occurence of the problem...
3. - NOW!!! Let the boating adventure begin! Here we are leaving our home port at 12:40 pm today (Tuesday, May 14, 2013).
We arrived at Galveston Yacht Basin after a leisurely trip of about 4 hours. About half of the trip is in the Houston Ship Channel, which is the busiest in the world. It used to be kind of scary passing the huge tankers and container ships, but after 7 years, we have gotten used to it. Upon arrival at the Galveston Yacht Basin, we did top off the fuel tanks with 188 gallons of diesel (we carry 600 gallons plus as well as 300 gallons of fresh water). Diesel is about 70 cents a gallon cheaper in Galveston...
The admiral fixed dinner on board, and we are now watching the sun moving toward the horizon over the Galveston ship channel. Something tells me that it is going to be “early to bed” tonight. It was a short day on the water, but the morning was spent running a couple of last minute errands and finishing loading clothes on the boat.
As a side note, as we were leaving our home dock in League City, Texas, we noticed that a family of Mallard ducks had already "adopted" our dingy dock as their new home...
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