Up at 7.  Took a bowl to the restroom so I could wash my hair and face good.  Went across the harbor to a marina to try to get gas, but it was closed.

8:39 On the river again.  I plan to motor at least until the dam five miles down river.  Beautiful day again with just a few clouds around.  I ran the motor for 5 or 10 minutes and it quit just like yesterday.  It is just running terrible.  Now I have the sails up and am moving pretty good.
 Now I have decided that trash has settled in the glass bulb in the carburetor.  I tried to get it off, but I was afraid I would drop it in the water.  I may have to take the motor off and get it in the boat with me so that I can work on it.  I hate having to go through this lock without a motor.  They always say something.
 It seems when I tip the motor up, it starts to act up like this.  It is definitely a fuel problem.  I took out the pin that Emmett fixed, but it didn't solve the problem like it did yesterday.

9:38 The wind has died.  I will have to get this motor running.

9:46 I got the motor in the boat, but it just "ain't gone work."  I can't get the glass bulb off.  So I am oaring and sailing down the river again.  Maybe in two days I can make it to Bayou Meto.

10:30  I have been the epitome of indecision today.  The motor wouldn't start and now I have pulled the pull string loose.  I am sure I could fix that, but the motor just doesn't want to run today.  I decided I would just oar on through the dam, then worry about the motor.  But I got to looking at that railroad bridge, flipped the chart over and discovered that the bridge is only 17.6 feet high and my mast is 20 feet high.  It will raise to 50 feet but I don't have a radio to talk to the bridge master.
 I began to think about getting the mast down to go under it, but that is not an easy thing to do from the boat.  It would be impossible to get it back up before the dam.  I didn't like the idea of oaring into the lock with a 20-foot mast stretched across my 13-foot boat!  So I decided to go back to Pine Bluff and quit.  But I didn't want to quit.  So I came to a little bay to try to find solid ground from which I could let down the mast and go on.
 When I got into the bay, the wind picked up from the east blowing back toward Pine Bluff.  I decided to put my sails up and sail back to Pine Bluff against the current.  So now I am headed back to Pine Bluff very, very slowly.  The wind is barely strong enough to gain any ground against the current.  It's either oar all the way back to Pine Bluff against the current, or sail back there very slowly.  Sailing back very slowly is the best bet.
 I am not upset, but I am disappointed that it has not worked out like I wanted it to.  I would loved to have gone on and finished this journey.  This is just the way sailing is - you have some adventures and some disappointments.
 It's going to take a long time to get back to Pine Bluff, but this is the only thing to do.  I really need this motor, and I don't have a radio to talk to the bridge master.  Dad gum!
 When I come back to the river, I'll just put in below the dam so that I miss this bridge.

 The wind picked up steadily until I was planing fast against the current making great time upstream.  When I was almost to the mouth of the bay leading to St. Marie Park, I looked up to see a huge barge coming my way.  The channel was very narrow at that point with a fast current.  So I sailed to the near side and took down my sails to oar the rest of the way.  But just as I did that, the wind started blowing hard out of the bay right against me.  With the current and the contrary wind, I had great difficulty making headway.  The tugboat was throwing a huge wave.  I had to oar for about 30 minutes as hard as I could to get to safety.
 I finally oared back to Island Harbor Marina.  It was a beautiful sail with lots of Sunday boaters in pontoon boats going by.  Some of them were bottle fishing with bright orange and green floats.  It turned out to be a beautiful Sunday on the water.  I am sorry I didn't make it on down the river, but this is a very pleasant spot.