Clear Lake Shores

Today we left the dock at approximately 6:22am--only 22 minutes behind schedule. Julio and Nathan came in late last night, flight was delayed. Julio is our crew and Nathan came to take Pat’s truck back to Ft. Worth.

Pat hurt his back getting the mattress through the companion way the day before--hoping it will get better rather than worse.

As time goes on I hope to get better about tracking miles per day, but it is hard to concentrate on that with everything else going on. I’ll add it later.

Early on spring this first day Pat had a quick tinge of sea sickness and threw up-- he is wearing a scopolamine patch--and his back is getting worse.

Towards the end of the day Julio starts to get sick and throwing up pretty consistently.

We are closely watching the weather and thinking about ducking in to Louisiana somewhere to wait out the storm--plus 2 crew members not operating at 100%.

First night watch went pretty well. Because Julio was sick I was essentially on my own. I knew that once I did it my anxiety would go away and I would feel confident being by myself.Read more