This picture says it all we woke up to a river of fog. All traffic was shutdown waiting for it to clear. After 3 hours we pushed out of the chute around 10am with okay visibility. So did the rest of the fleet it was major busy. We made our way down the remaining 1.3 miles of the upper Mississippi to the Ohio and up we went. Tow traffic was lighter and the sun finally came out man did it feel good as we made our way to the Cumberland river. The Cumberland is a beautiful river and a nice change from all the commercial traffic we had seen the last two days. At 3:30 in the afternoon we entered the lock at Lake Barkley Dam and slowly made our way past a tow already tied up in the lock. After we passed the toe we tied up to the bollard the lock master asked me to use. For you non boaters a bollard is a big pin on the side of the lock wall that floats up as the lock fills with water. We tied Daddy to it and it kept us nice and safe close to the lock wall as the turbulent water fills the chamber usually taking about 20 minutes. This lock raised us 57 feet into Lake Barkley. In another 30 minutes we were tied up to the fuel dock at Green Turtle Bay for fuel and then to our slip for the evening. We just got back from a nice dinner at the Commonwealth Yacht Club.
Log:
Date 2006-11-08 Time 07:35:41 Up and ready to go waiting for Fog to clear
Date 2006-11-08 Time 08:04:03 Gen hours 671.1
Date 2006-11-08 Time 10:10:45 Fog has cleared a bit going to give it a try
Date 2006-11-08 Time 13:50:03 Mouth of Cumberland
Date 2006-11-08 Time 15:39:55 Barkley Lock in with one tug
Date 2006-11-08 Time 17:06:33 in Green Turtle Bay for the night with fuel and pump out.