Daily Logs

Once you read this you will wonder why two otherwise sane educated people would put themselves in such a position. The answer is adventure on the high seas. Now when last we left our off we were in Old Briar Creek riding out a minor gale at anchor. We survived the night and awoke early to up […]

This is the second time I have written this blog entry. The first time was at 1800 when I accidentally hit the cancel button and lost it all. How frustrating after a totally tense day. I’ll tell you all about it. Right now it is just after midnight on the Tensaw River Cutoff. A nearly

More pictures to be added later. This will be the first of two parts covering our travels for 11/8 and 11/9. On Tuesday the fleet pulled out of Demopolis Yacht Basin and moved south. We immediately entered the Demopolis Lock and after that 20BUCK$ and Cbay moved away from the pack. Slow moving boats would

To continue:             We left off with our arrIval at the famous or infamous Bobby’s Fish Camp. It is only a single dock about 120 feet long on the side of the river. The first three boats that arrive get to tie to the dock and everyone else ties to

        Demopolis Yacht Basin is a gathering point or perhaps bottleneck on the Loop for several reasons. It is the absolute last place to have any work done on a boat for the next 237 miles. It is the only marina period for the next 237 miles until Mobile, the only town with

    This was our first big mistake. We set off at 0730 with five boats. It was foggy but not bad in the Pirate’s Cove. The same could not be said for the river. Above is the view we had of the lock as we waited to go in. But this was not the worst of

No pictures today due to no WIFI. Will fill in later. This morning we fueled up and pumped out waste before heading further down the Tenn-Tom. We took on 52.6 gallons of diesel at $3.69 per gallon. This is pretty good fuel usage. We are averaging 2.61 mpg which is about what I expected. It

First let me happily announce that in our two nights at Columbus Marina I have had excellent WIFI that I am “borrowing” from some unknown source. It is superfast and I have corrected all those errors in the past three blogs and added pictures so you might want to go back and look. Just minutes ago I

    Again sorry but the beautiful photos I am taking cannot be uploaded until I get to a good WIFI which should be tomorrow in Columbus, MS. Until then you will have to imagine it but I promise to fill in all the pictures ASAP. Part of this may sound like a rant but

If I lose my place on an entry with the iPad, I cannot seem to get back to that location and just have to post and continue on another page.  At the second lock we had an episode. We have on board a pair of “marriage savers”. These are headsets with microphone booms to communicate