Turns out that Lafitte, Louisiana is the place where they used to make this kind of boat called a skiff, and they called them Lafitte Skiffs. Pretty cool, huh? John and his new crew had anchored in a spot right next to where they used to make these things.
I didn't know it at the time when she talked to John on the phone on Saturday, and neither did Cappy, but the reason John wasn't able to move the boat to Slidell by himself, was because in those lock things, they make you have at least two people on the boat -one to drive (steer) the boat, and another person to use the dock lines to hold the boat in place on these things called bollards (you might want to look that up) and then adjust the lines as the boat moves up and down with the water level. Pretty complicated stuff, but apparently, they got it done.
The day after they got to Lafitte, they went all the way to a place called the Rigolets. This is a section of the ICW (that's the Intercoastal Waterway) where deep trenches let salt water from the Gulf of Mexico in to Lake Pontchartrain. Whew! I can't believe I remembered all that. I'm not really sure why that's important, but it is.
They all spent the night on the boat in the Rigolets, and then finished their trip to Slidell the next day. John said there is a really nice marina there, called Oak Harbor Marina, and that is where he left the boat. His daughter and her family left Slidell the next day, and John finished securing the boat, and drove home the day after that in a rental car. And the boat is still there.