The best part about being stranded in New Orleans at the Municipal Yacht Harbor has been meeting Joel and Anna and their friends. Joel and Anna own a boat, Ms. B, on the same pier as the White Pepper and are street musicians in New Orleans. They are as new to sailing as we are to their world of playing music for tips on sidewalks and bars.
Jan showed Anna how to tie a cleat knot much to Anna's delight. I helped Joel climb his mast for the first time after carefully instructing him on how use a bosun's chair safely. Then they asked us to tag along on some of their gigs. Anna taught me a new word, to busk. Busking is playing music for tips. What a joy it is to learn short new English word that is so useful!
Joel is so taken with his new passion that he will organize a sailing trip anytime except the weekends--that is when there is work to be done. He will ask his friends to come and they will bring their instruments. After I give a lesson in how to reef the mainsail, they all gather in the cockpit and jam. We have had several magical sails on Lake Pontchartrain.
