We departed Intracoastal City and headed for Houma on Tuesday. We decided to bypass the Morgan City traffic and Bayou Boeuf Lock so we turned south in the Atchafalaya and headed for the Avoca Island Cutoff where we turned out of the river and headed northeast until we met the Intracoastal again at Bayou Chene (Mason you can figure it out). About 15 miles west of Houma we lost our port engine. It was running but wouldn't respond in either forward or reverse. So we continued on to Houma on one engine. Morele was steering while I was down in the engine compartment trying to figure out what the problem was. Things got a little dicey witn oncoming barge traffic. Morele had a few tense moments but she made it okay. We docked at the Houma Municipal Docks which are very good facilities for transient boaters.
There was one other boat in the facility. Bill and Margie are transiting to Baytown, Tx. We walked into downtown and had a good meal at an Italian restaurant.
The next morning I arranged for a mechanic to check out our problem which turned out to be a throttle cable problem. Although it was fixed by noon we decided to stay over and leave the next morning.
Houma is headquarters to Seacor Marine. this leads us to my next post.
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