Glitch month--February

We enjoyed our 1 1/2 month stay in Port Isabel visiting with all our friends at the Circle L in Rio Hondo. But it was time to move on. Our plan was to head east, however, we ran into our first glitch. When Jan went in for a simple outpatient sinus surgery, the ENT discovered cancer cells. Same cancer cells as before and relatively the same area except a very small amount compared to 2007. After visiting with the Doctors at MD Anderson, it was decided that she needed 6 weeks of chemotherapy. Okay, so we'll head north and spend some time at Seabrook. We left Port Isabel on 2/23 at 6 am. Bubba, Joe's long time friend, had joined us for the sail. We sailed all night and by 5 am we were entering Corpus Christi Bay when we ran into our second glitch. We ran the ditch the entire way and when we hit a section of the ditch which is extremely narrow the wind was blowing gale force (40 knots) and the waves were making the bow bottom out. We lost steerage due to the waves and the wind turned us sideways and ran us aground. We were hard aground on sand and oyster shells. We finally got towed and were headed for an anchorage when we started taking on water. Our bilge pumps couldn't keep up and we couldn't determine the source. The tow boat made arrangements for a larger bigle pump to be brought out and that allowed us to keep up with the water intake. We were towed to the nearest boat yard which happens to be in our old stomping ground, Ingleside On The Bay. It turns out there's a crack along the hull by the rudder and a bent rudder post. We ended up with 1-1 1/2' of water in the boat. Now we sit on the hard at Northshore Boat Yard while they put our boat back together. We still had to make our appointment at MD Anderson so we flew to Dallas, retrieved our motor home and settled in San Leon which is 8 miles from Clear Lake. Hopefully the boat will be ready by the time we are through with chemo and we will continue our journey.