Day on the Cruise: 156
From: Green Turtle Bay Resort, Grand Rivers, KY
To: Green Turtle Bay Resort, Grand Rivers, KY
Statute Miles: 0.0 SM
Time: 0.0 Hrs
Cumulative Miles: 3,984.3 SM
On Board: Susan, Chuck, Maggie, Trooper, Peanut
We stayed at Green Turtle Bay today. Happy birthday to Susan!
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| Green Turtle Bay is about 100 road miles from Nashville, and between 500 and 600 water miles from Chicago |
Sleeping in until 8:00 was great. No 5:30 wakeup call today! The service manager from the Green Turtle Boat Works came by at 8:30 and we arranged for an oil and filter change and generator service. The overheating issue and the loud exhaust noise is a concern. I also saw where there is a carbon buildup at the exhaust port on the side of the hull. He thinks it might be an impeller issue and will check it.
I didn't get him to look at the thrusters. I checked the batteries and added some water to the big 8D that powers the thrusters. I am wondering if using the windlass might have de-powered the battery so that the thrusters did not have enough juice. I want to see what a day of charging the batteries on shore power does before I jump into troubleshooting thrusters.
The Enterprise Car Rental folks picked us up at the marina at 11:00 and took us 30 minutes into Paducah to get a rental car. We managed to find our way back to GTB just fine, despite having to take a bunch of back roads.
We have been out of internet range for many days, so I caught up on the blog. I think that I have missed almost a week of postings, so I apologize for the lull in the blog. Thanks to several of you who have emailed us asking if we were OK. The
Mississippi below Alton and the Ohio are in the wild so to speak as far as AT&T is concerned. Also, it is tough to do the blog at the end of a long cruising day like we have had in the past four or five days. Anyway, we are back on track!
Docktails tonight had a huge attendance as more and more Loopers arrive at GTB. We filled the gazebo and spilled into the parking lot. We saw many Loopers, again, who we had not seen in weeks. It was good to see our Canadian friends aboard the two Nimbles whom we had met at Grafton first, then Hoppies. They are from New Brunswick, and we were able to give them info on where we anchored each night after we left Hoppies. They anchored in the "L" wing dam at 77.85 on the Mississippi and really liked it. Some of out flotilla passed this location on to Bob at Alton and he is now putting it into his Looper briefing. It is good to know that our flotilla blazed a trail and found this anchorage!
Al and Charlie from Always Five O'Clock and Susan and I took the rental car after Docktails and found a great catfish place called, appropriately, "Catfish Kitchen", which is about 6-7 miles from GTB. It is a very local fish place and it was great. When you sit down, like a Mexican place brings chips and salsa to the table, they bring bowls of white beans, hush puppies, and slaw. The catfish is filets and was excellent. They refill the white beans, hush puppies, and slaw as fast as you eat it. The hush puppies are like the ones we used to get in North Alabama. You can't stop eating them! We met the owner and he spent a good bit of time with us. Very nice gentleman! Al was amazed at the inexpensive price of the meal and couldn't believe the value! The Catfish Kitchen! It is amazing, just like Patti's was last night.
Tomorrow we will head home. We are really looking forward to it!
Thanks for Reading! "
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