Captain Jerry
This is a day of firsts. We overtook our first tow, the Addie Belle, 30 minutes later the Beth Wilson. It was pretty daunting to pass one of these huge vessels. In spite of the fact that our boat is big to some, beside one of these massive chunks of steel, we seem really small. There's a one or two whistle call to the Capt of the tug. This determines which side you pass him on. It's at his discretion which side you pass since he has the right of way.
Here's another tow
That's a lot of rock to be moving. Some of these tows are impressive.
We are 5th in line for the Pickwick Lock. This is our first lock in this boat. We had been taking our time when we hear the boats up ahead getting up to the lock. We kicked it up so we could lock through with them. Turned out it wasn't necessary. We got there and had to wait for the lock to open, green light and horn, then heard another boat was about 15 minutes behind us so the dockmaster waited for him.
This is the boat across from us in the lock. We are locking upstream. We were raised 63 feet between Pickwick and Kentucky lakes.
We are leaving the lock and are now on Pickwick Lake. I'm the deck monkey returning the fenders to their proper storage and taking up the lines.
We stopped for the night at Grand Harbor Marina located 9 miles upstream of the Pickwick Dam at the junction of the Tennessee river and the Tombigbee Waterway at mile marker 449.7. We went to dinner at FreddyTs in Iuka, MS, with some other loopers we met on the dock. Wonderful evening talking with others that were heading south. Ron and Karlene on the Blue Line were great folks and we really enjoyed meeting them.
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