I'm not sure what time it was, but it was very 
early when we all heard 
someone from outside calling, "Hey! Hey! 
Sailboat! Anybody there?"
John groaned a lot, but got up and went to the door (companionway) to see what all the ruckus was. There was this big, scary looking man standing on the shore and he was yelling at John, "You can't tie up here. This place is not safe! You have to leave!"
Oh, dear, not again. John wasn't very happy because he said he had wanted to have some time that morning to look at his charts and to plan a new course (that's the direction that we go), but now he didn't have time to do that.
So, John and Cappy got dressed and untied the boat. Then we went back out into the water. They said this water was called the ICW, which means the Inter-Coastal Waterway, and that it would take us to our next stop. We spent several hours on this ICW thing, and we saw a lot of other boats and some more of those barge things. John and Cappy kept talking about how we were going the wrong way, but we didn't have any choice because there was no place anywhere else around where they could tie up the boat.
I have to admit, the ride was kind of nice. I didn't get knocked over or tossed around even once. I even managed to take a couple of naps. Sometime that afternoon, we would up in this place called Houma, and there was a place there for us to finally tie up our boat and even turn on the air conditioning. Awesome!
John got kind of mad because as soon as we got the boat tied up, this man came up to him begging for money. That wasn't good. But he went away and didn't come back again to bother us.
We had a nice evening there, complete with air conditioning and lights and everything! John and Cappy went into town and had dinner, but they left a good dinner for me before the left. When they got back, we all went to bed early and had the best night's sleep in a very long time.
The next morning, Cappy and I got into a car (They called it a rental car.) and she and I drove home in it. She didn't want to leave John there, but she had to get back home so she could go to work on Monday, and John wanted to get the boat to a safer place. So, the two of us left for home, and John stayed with the boat, ,waiting for his daughter to come from Rhode Island (another place that I don't know what it is) to help him. We didn't know it at the time, but that wasn't going to work out so well.
early when we all heard 
someone from outside calling, "Hey! Hey! 
Sailboat! Anybody there?"John groaned a lot, but got up and went to the door (companionway) to see what all the ruckus was. There was this big, scary looking man standing on the shore and he was yelling at John, "You can't tie up here. This place is not safe! You have to leave!"
Oh, dear, not again. John wasn't very happy because he said he had wanted to have some time that morning to look at his charts and to plan a new course (that's the direction that we go), but now he didn't have time to do that.
So, John and Cappy got dressed and untied the boat. Then we went back out into the water. They said this water was called the ICW, which means the Inter-Coastal Waterway, and that it would take us to our next stop. We spent several hours on this ICW thing, and we saw a lot of other boats and some more of those barge things. John and Cappy kept talking about how we were going the wrong way, but we didn't have any choice because there was no place anywhere else around where they could tie up the boat.
I have to admit, the ride was kind of nice. I didn't get knocked over or tossed around even once. I even managed to take a couple of naps. Sometime that afternoon, we would up in this place called Houma, and there was a place there for us to finally tie up our boat and even turn on the air conditioning. Awesome!
John got kind of mad because as soon as we got the boat tied up, this man came up to him begging for money. That wasn't good. But he went away and didn't come back again to bother us.
We had a nice evening there, complete with air conditioning and lights and everything! John and Cappy went into town and had dinner, but they left a good dinner for me before the left. When they got back, we all went to bed early and had the best night's sleep in a very long time.
The next morning, Cappy and I got into a car (They called it a rental car.) and she and I drove home in it. She didn't want to leave John there, but she had to get back home so she could go to work on Monday, and John wanted to get the boat to a safer place. So, the two of us left for home, and John stayed with the boat, ,waiting for his daughter to come from Rhode Island (another place that I don't know what it is) to help him. We didn't know it at the time, but that wasn't going to work out so well.
