We left Pass Christian on a perfect weather day. Took us about 11 hours to get over to Lu Lu’s Home Port Marina in Gulf Shores, Alabama. Went over to check out LuLu’s for dinner and watched the Saints game. The next morning Karen & I walk to the en…
FRIDAY AUGUST 20TH
We have arrived at our destination for this leg of our journey. The bad news, now we have to close up the boat to return home. First item on the to do list is the laundry. This is where the Garmin comes in real handy. Ross punches a few things in and w…
Sunday —- Hoppie’s to Diversion Cut
Day: 453 Miles Today: 110 Locks Today: 00 Total Miles: 5246 Total Locks: 143
Yesterday afternoon while at Hoppie’s Marina, it was suggested by Fern that we visit the town restaurant for dinner. Then we found out that the restaurant closed at 5:00 p.m.
So at 4:00 p.m. Gary, Maggie and I hiked it a quarter of a […]
Leland/Frankfort
Leland/FrankfortSeptember 10We woke up to blue skies, sunshine and a flat lake. What a nice change! We left the Charlevoix marina in time to make it through the 7:30 a.m. bridge, and it was a picture-perfect day. Our original plans were to cruise to Le…
Leland/Frankfort
Leland/FrankfortSeptember 10We woke up to blue skies, sunshine and a flat lake. What a nice change! We left the Charlevoix marina in time to make it through the 7:30 a.m. bridge, and it was a picture-perfect day. Our original plans were to cruise to Le…
Engine room deckplates
I’d been keeping an eye out for some aluminum diamond plate material to make deck plates for the engine room for a while. Most of what I had found was either very expensive, or too lightweight to use for decking without some major re-enforcement. I men…
Chicago and the Illinois River Waterway
September 1, 2010 – September 11, 2010We left New Buffalo expecting a bumpy ride across Lake Michigan but were pleasantly surprised at the relatively quiet, boring ride to Chicago-we like boring on Lake Michigan! The clouds didn’t help us capture the s…
Tennessee River
Now we have entered a new state for us Tennessee and the terrain is changing as you can see by the high cliffs. This is all new territory for Marilyn as she did not do this section of the trip in 1999.We thought the barges would be smaller&n…
Hard on the Hard
September 11, 2010Chaguaramas, TrinidadJust a year ago, we were announcing that DOMINO would fly the US flag. We were still on the hard under the shed at Mariano Roque Alonso, 3 months away from launch. And we’re on the hard again, in Tri…
Saturday —- Mississippi River, Alton IL to Hoppie’s
Day: 452 Miles Today: 44 Locks Today: 02 Total Miles: 5136 Total Locks: 143
We left at sunrise for our start down the Mississippi. This is where the trip starts to get dicey. We were traveling fast again and at one point we reached 13.7 mph for a few minutes. I think that may be a speed […]
