First my apologies for spelling errors! Hopefully you can read around them!
We woke up to heavy pouring rain , in fact it had rained a lot during the night and finally stopped around 9.30 am this morning.
We connected with Lucky Ducks and left around 10.30 am after they had refueled.
As the fueling dock was surrounded by rising water , Jim had to wait for the dock master who once the ran stopped fully was able to put on his wading boots and come over to the fuel dock!
Erica walked around the dock to find Afflack the white duck resident of IVY club to say goodbye.
He is a hoot, he has made friends with a regular female duck and they are inseparable .
Don't think any babies have come from this love affair yet!
Three of us headed off downstream, a fourth boat in the convey from Peoria, Morning Star had already left at 6.30am. They are early risers!
Our one lock of the day proved to be a non event as with the high waters we just sailed on past the dam and wicket lock .During high water the wickets are lowered to the bottom of the river to allow the traffic to pass over them without having to lock through . When we got to the last bridge we encountered a big barge and tow boat slowly attempting to make the narrow entrance followed by an immediate turn to the right. We were all able to squeeze past making sure to keep inside the green buoys on our right. It makes you realize it is quite a tricky operation for these tow captains to maneuver these huge barges in tight places.After that it was smooth running and very little debris. We increased speed a little , even got up on plane for a short while and then were able to watch the jumping Asian carp enjoying our wake. Hard to get photos but this is Erica's attempt. Arrived at the small cute Marina called TallTimbers at about 2.30 pm.
Bob the dock master and the first two boats ahead of us were there to help us tie up. Shortly afterwards a fifth boat arrived , a smaller Duffy a kind of lobster boat style. They parked next to us.
The owners were from Maine. So the two Maine boats were side by side together! Very appropriate !
Terri and I headed off to explore the town which didn't have much open.
In fact the recommended Trixies we were all hoping to have breakfast at tomorrow was shut and didn't open til Friday. So we headed back. Later we sat out on the dock with the other loopers for drinks , nibbles and had fun telling our boating stories.Great Loopers camaraderie .
Dinner was on board Pasta and Salad and Jim and Terri came over to join us with their wine and again we discussed tomorrow's run south.
Over and Out,
E and G
No comments:
Post a Comment