I’ll try to catch us up a bit here.  On  Saturday, almost immediately after we left Bruswick marina and entered the shipping channel, we lost our port engine.  To complicate matters, the East River was in the process of being dredged. Tom calmly dropped anchor between the dredge ship and the shrimp boats, went down into the engine room and began to diagnose the problem. I stayed top side to kept watch to make sure the oncoming vessels realized we were having an emergency. Fortunately the weather was calm and clear and river traffic minimal.These are a few of the vessels that had to skirt around us as we swung on anchor in the middle of the 40 foot channel. Once again Tom’s planning saved the day as we now have plenty of anchor chain to let out enough rode to safely hold our position. After about an hour and a couple  of telephone conferences with the mechanic,  we were on our way. Whew!!! Boy that crispy cold congratulatory beer tasted fine! On to Jekyll