Saturday: There was rain and thunder storms predicted for the area but we thought we could get ahead of them and we did. They all went south of us. We had 3 Locks to go through today: Rankin, Montgomery, and Whitten. The first 2 we had to wait 45 minutes at each lock on a slow sail boat. The 3 lock we waited 3.75 hours on 3 Tows. We finally got through the last lock and we took off in a hurry so we could get to Grand Harbor before they closed at 18:00. We needed fuel and our slip. We made good time and got here by 17:05. We met up with Sam and Cheryl, the people we bought the boat from last September. They were having a cook out at their boat so we went down there for dinner. All of K Dock was there. It was good to see some of the people we met last fall. Had an enjoyable evening.
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CO’s comments: A Tow had to blow his horn to get some bass boaters out of the channel so he could pass through on the channel and he also had to slow down because of wake boarders in front of him in the channel. How stupid people can be. Tows can not stop on a dime and they can not swerve to miss people. If someone fell in front of him he would run over them. It doesn’t make any sense to me.
5-18-2013: Roy El in the Whitten Lock. We went up 84' and even though we had to wait almost 4 hours to get in there, once we were, the Lock Master locked us up really fast. We were in and out within 20 minutes.
5-18-2013: Pass Christian Tow
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