On Friday, between rain storms, we managed to glass the keel, strut and two thru hulls. I helped Brett cut up the fiberglass and pour resin. I have been very sick these last few days, with a bad cough and fever and haven't been able to help out as much as I'd like but Brett did manage to get the bottom paint on in an hour yesterday, again, in between rain storms. We laughed this morning as the news informed us that New Orleans had a record high of rainfall yesterday. The day we painted the bottom. LOL. Brett also got the new zincs put onto the shaft and the fixed prop mounted. Brett noticed that our boat has been continuing to shift slowly to port in the stands. He 
had added one stand on Friday and the boat shifted its weight to it. We had heard a popping noise Friday night and realized it was the chain holding up the stands under the boat. Alarmed, he and the live-on-premises manager propped two more stands under us. The manager called the travel lift operator yesterday and told him to come in on his day off and reblock us. After several hours, he showed up but said we looked fine and wouldn't fall over and didn't reblock. He said he would reblock us on Monday (his normal work day). Brett told him that we were splashing on Monday. Even though we had lots of extra expenses, the work seemed to go smoothly. I still need to re-paint our homeport on the boat but am waiting till hopefully this afternoon to see if I feel better.We ate at a small Chinese restaurant Friday night that, again, looked scary, but was excellent food. Turns out, all the locals ended up there while we ate.
Last night, for Valentines, we had leftover pork fried rice and eggs, cheesecake and Nyquil. yummy! We are anxious to get back in the water tomorrow and to continue our voyage. We are contemplating skipping New Orleans now, as there seems to be a shortage of transient docks- it sounds like the City Municiple Harbor we stayed at in July is closed. So we may go ahead and head toward the "Rigolets" and anchor at Rabbit Island before heading offshore.I added a link under Our Favorite Links to a photo gallery I joined up with under photo.net. I have been getting very low ratings for my photos but it's nice to get feedback so I know what to improve on. I consider these photographers to be the best of the best. I have our printer up and running and we hope to be able to sell photographs at some point to help us earn money.Oh, I forgot to mention. We gave up my bike in Mandeville... It would not fit under the dinghy and was impossible to sail with it on deck. Benny gratefully accepted the bike, promising to give it a good home. I cried because of the memories on that bike but it was better than just abandoning it at the marina. I hope we are able to find folding bikes soon.
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