The Drake

an Aleutka design with Chinese Lug Rig
The delivery - sailing from Kemah-Seabrook, Texas (near Houston) south down the Intercoastal Canal past Corpus Christi, Texas to Port Mansfield, Texas.
Done 12 - 17 December 1981.

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Loading up the night before the Drake's delivery began - Friday, 11 December 1981
Jeff Talbert on left, Gerard Mittelstaedt on right

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Loading up the night before departure from Seabrook, Texas - 11 December 1981

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Heading out at beginning of Drake's delivery at Kemah-Seabrook, Texas - Saturday, 12 December 1981

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The masthead - Drake's Chinese Lug Rig - December 1981

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The companionway and reflection of photographer - December 1981

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Sharing the intercoastal with a barge tow

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Sharing the intercoastal with a barge tow - just north of Port o'Connor, Texas - during delivery - Sunday - mid December 1981

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Near San Antonio Bay, Texas - during delivery - mid December 1981

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Approaching Aransas Pass Bridge, Texas - during delivery - mid December 1981

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During delivery - Corpus Christi Bay - mid December 1981

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During delivery - at Clem's marina under JFK causeway - Corpus Christi - 16 December 1981

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reefed way down - heavy weather - during delivery
At this time we were sailing south in the land cut which connects the upper and lower Laguna Madre - 17 December 1981

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Dorothy Talbert in heavy weather during delivery - 17 December 1981
Dorothy was a retired registered nurse. While she knew little about sailboating before signing on for this adventure, she was an excellent crewmember, rising to the occasion to hand reef and steer.
Dorothy died in early 2006 in a nursing home in New Mexico.

Map of Delivery route -- 12 - 17 December 1981

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