Dreary, Chilly, Slow would all be words to describe our first day. We got away on time but it was very slow going through St. Louis and below. Lots of tugs working today . We had to run slow to keep from waking them. We made our minimum destination, the floating lock wall on the Kaskaskia River around 2:15pm. I was hoping to get about 50 miles more. Didn?? t see the sun all day and rained on us 90% of the time. Not to worry we kept dry and warm except when Charlene had to go out and tend to the fenders. I wanted to do it for her so bad but have to stay at the helm. We will be up early tomorrow to get a start on the next day!!

Log:
Date 2006-11-06 Time 05:26:26 Start Engines
Date 2006-11-06 Time 05:47:50 Push out of Grafton
Date 2006-11-06 Time 06:53:33 Made Alton
Date 2006-11-06 Time 07:42:19 Pushed out of Mel Price
Date 2006-11-06 Time 08:44:38 Arrive at Chain of Rocks Locked with Robert Taylor
Date 2006-11-06 Time 09:37:03 Downtown St. Louis
Date 2006-11-06 Time 11:21:32 Arrived at Hoppies Marine for fuel
Date 2006-11-06 Time 11:37:42 52.4gal fill up at Hoppies and shoved off
Date 2006-11-06 Time 14:12:33 Kaskaskia River Lock and Dam. Tied up to the lock wall for the night. cool and rainy day.
Date 2006-11-06 Time 14:52:17 Trip History
Average 1.1 MPG 9.9 MPH 5:50 Distance 58.2mi 43.7 Gal
Starboard 220hr 54min
Port 222hr 03min
Fuel remaining
Starboard 176.1
Port 178.0