May 14, 2013: Kemps Landing to Demopolis Yacht Basin, AL

Tuesday: To add to our problems of yesterday, Roy, Elvie, and Pam wake up to make coffee and their coffee pot didn’t work. Luckily, I had a coffee pot that worked and they had the electricity. After making coffee, Roy El left about 07:00 and we took our anchor up manually; which was really stuck good in the mud but with a little finesse, Keith was able to get it up while I drove. We were on our way by 07:30. It was another beautiful day on the river with the high getting into the mid 80's. We had one lock to go through today; Demopolis Lock at Mile 213. We had to wait a good hour plus on 3 barges ahead of us. Once the Lock Master got the barges into the lock he got them through in about 15 to 20 minutes each which I thought was pretty good. Roy El stopped at Foscue anchorage at Mile 114 and we went to Demopolis Yacht Basin for the afternoon and night. We had a mechanic look at our generator and he thinks that all 3 of the generator filters need to be changed. He thought that the generator wasn’t getting enough fuel. He had to order 1 of the filters and it should be here by 08:00 tomorrow morning. Hopefully that is all that is wrong and it will not take too long so we can catch up with Roy El by evening. We were both tired and spent a quiet night on the boat. Ordered pizza for supper.

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5-14-2013:  One of the many tows we met or passed today.

5-14-2013:  A Red Buoy washed up on shore due to high water.