We found a great weather window and headed to Houma. We were not sure if we would be able to make it all the way, but we did it with plenty of time to spare... even waiting on the locks.
Our first challenge was The Industrial Lock. They are not known for their hospitality... It was funny, when I called the Harvey Lock to get instructions the mentioned how "unfriendly" the might be... Their reputation proceeded them.
All of the traffic was backed up because of the recent fog. We were told to move to port (our left side) to tie up to some pilings. We were almost totally unable to communicate with them and since the right side seemed far more inviting than the left we could not understand why they were sending us there. Finally a barge operator told us that they lock had told us to move over and tie up. So we headed over... as we made our way across we could finally see that there was indeed pilings in which to tie up to. So we did. Then we had to wait about 30 minutes for barges to pass. We proceeded through with the not so nice lock operator.
The River was up 10 ft. And we had a 4 kt. current... pushing 2000 RPM's we made a wopping 4.5 kts.
Making our way into the Mississippi we had to hold up for 2 ships. Our instructions from the nice Harvey Lock guy was to cross to the other side of the river to stage on the right descending bank off of Algiers Point. Say What???? Algiers was on our left, not right... We looked up where Algiers Point was and figured out that it was indeed on the right descending bank.when talking about the "descending current" in the Mississippi. We staged there until called and they tossed up lines to the nice man. Smooth sailing!
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