Our day started a little later this morning, we didn't get underway until shortly after 8:00 am due to the repair of the bilge line. There is a lot more to operating a 42 foot sailing vessel than its navigation.
When we left our night's anchorage "Angela's Tow Head" there was a ghostly fog floating on the water.
The following photos are sites along the river.
The entire day was cold, everyone was bundled up to keep out the chill. Bundling up consisted of layering sweaters, sweatshirts, jackets along with mittens and toques. Brrrrr!
It is unseasonably cold here, their weather has matched ours back home. At 10 this morning the temperature of the weather was 51 degrees F.
This is the first trip in this area for Greg but he manages the boat like he has done it often. Anyone that knows Greg is aware he is one to research it all before hand. He obviously did a very thorough job for this trip.
This is the new dam being built at Olmsted lock on the Ohio river
Water outlet at a power plant
We had to wait 2 hours before we could enter the Ohio River Locks, one of the tow boats was in a lock and had mechanical problems causing our delay in getting in.
We are in and tied to the wall.
The doors close behind us.
The first mate holds the pole against the wall to keep the boat from being pushed against it by the force of the incoming water.
The captain does the same on the bow.
The deck hand keeps his rope tight to prevent the boat's stern from being pushed by the force of the water.
This lock was a 51 foot rise.
It is getting late in the day, the moon is up.
Water flowing over the dam at the Ohio River Locks
The front doors open
We aren't getting through too soon, the moon is in the sky.
When we were free to leave the lock we had a very small space to navigate between the side of the lock and the tow boat waiting its turn to come in. Greg was proud of his ability to get through it without incident. (and so were we).
Here is another picture of that narrow space.
We arrived at our anchorage in Cuba Tow Head in the dark about an hour after we left the lock. The Tennessee River joins the Ohio at this point.
It is good that the navigational instruments light up to show in the dark.
