Home Stretch

We left Louisville City Dock Saturrday at crack of dawn thirty.  If we had only known what was coming, we could have slept late - really late!

Lots of healthy people in Louisville taking full advantage of the river for fitness.

Can you see the swimmer in training below on the other side of the boat? It was a cool morning but the water was at 75 degrees.

A nice Chris Craft runabout we saw below the dam.

And then the dreaded dam. We knew one of the locks was closed for repairs but when we called ahead we were told that the other lock was shut down as well. We slowed up and arrived at 2:30 only to sit for six hours until they called us through. So much for getting to Turtle Creek early to clean and recoup!

Barges backed up like crazy

Finally - we got in. I am not the most comfortable boating at night but the lock was nicely lit.

Another boat shared the lock with us and also stayed the night at Turtle Creek. It was a Passagemaker trawler that a really nice couple was bringing to Pittsburgh from Annapolis. He and his wife were retired of course and started the trip back in April.

I can tell you, It was a lot hader to see this building at night!

Turtle Creek at sunrise

We did not get the 9 am start we wanted because the boat really needed to be cleaned. The Mississippi River did a hurtin on our "once white" swim platform. We will have to keep working on getting rid of that brown. We ended up leaving around 11:30 so plan to be at our home marina now around 2:30 now unless we just decide to keep on going.