Thursday
Miles Traveled 93.6
Total Miles Traveled 553
Day 15
We left Chickamauga Lake this morning just after sunrise and followed another trawler into the lock. This was the earliest start that we have had so far but I called a long time friend that I haven’t seen for several years, and found that he had an office inside Chickamauga Dam. I told him we would be at the lock at 8 a.m. and he came to the lock to see us through.
Sorry, not a very good picture, we were dropping in the lock and I
snapped this while trying to keep the boat off the slimy wall. I tried to
rotate this with a picture editor but every time I downloaded it to blogger, it
uses this format?
After locking through, we talked to the boat that we were
in the lock chamber with and found they were having engine trouble and were
trying to make it to their home port at Goose Pond Marina, this would make a 90
mile day for us, but with rain in the forecast for the next few days, we
decided to follow them to their marina instead of anchoring out on the river
during bad weather.
This was another perfect boating day; the water was flat with a light breeze, clear skies, and a downstream river current. We sounded our horn when cruising past the Chattanooga riverside dock, as our new friends that we met during our stay there waved at us.
This is lookout mountain with I-24 at the bottom when leaving Chattanooga.
Although this looks like a tight squeeze, we have plenty of room to get under the railroad bridge. We have charts that tell us the bridge vertical clearance at pool stage and the concrete bridge support on the right has a scale to show the acutal clearance at the current water level, which was about 35 feet.
We locked through Nickajack Lock with only a slight
delay. This is "Miss Kaylee" waiting for the lock to open wiith us.
We cruised all the way to Goose Pond Marina, located just south of
Scottsboro, AL. This was a good test for
us because the route we will take from the Panhandle to the West coast of
Florida will be about the same distance.
Our boat performed well, we had beautiful scenery, and listened to our Sirius
radio and Bose Sound Link Mini (Thanks Guys!)
Oh yes, another airplane event………we were cruising down the
Tennessee River in a very unpopulated area enjoying the beautiful scenery and
we both looked at each other in total confusion as a loud screeching noise came
from nowhere. We looked all around and saw a private jet
flying low to the river that zoomed right over the boat. Wow!
That was totally unexpected……….but awesome. I can see how the Air Force can strike a
target before they ever here the jet coming.
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