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No contest for me: Our planned family cruise of 2005.
We bought the Zombie Princess in New Orleans in June of 2005 for an intended 6-months-to-a-year cruise in the Caribbean. Worked on her in July and August and were about ready to go when, after more than 30 years without a major hit, New Orleans got creamed by Katrina. The ZP survived and we re-prepped her to depart NO as soon as the bridges were working. However, before that happened we had to ride out Rita at anchor. Yee-ha! Finally, the major bridges were fixed and we escaped NO. We crossed the Gulf of Mexico to Naples, FL. I tried to tuck in behind a weather system which was supposed to be dissapating but we caught it bigtime for some of the worst weather I've ever sailed in. My older daughter puked for four days; we had to force her to (minimally) hydrate. Finally got down to the Dry Tortugas with the hope of actually starting a lovely, warm, tropical cruise. We were there for one day; then the rangers told us to evacuate to Key West cuz Wilma was coming. After Wilma ran over the boat in Key West, the kids were completely uninterested in continuing "cruising" and we were pretty exhausted ourselves. So we terminated our "Caribbean cruise" in Key West in December and returned home for Christmas. Definitely my worst adventure ever. Frank |
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