Oct. 26, mile 449; Today’s run: 58 miles Two miles from Pickwick Lock, we overtook the towboat, Blair Elizabeth and arrived at the lock before she did. The lockmaster announced we would need to wait until she was locked through. We spent an hour drifting downriver on a current that carried us sideways until we… Continue reading

Oct. 25; mile 158.5; Days run: 10 miles Since 2021, Stacey Huntingford has owned and operated the Clifton Marina. In her former life, she had managed a call centre for a major cell phone company located in California. After being with the company for 18 years, the company merged with another and she retired to… Continue reading

Oct. 24; mile 149; Today’s run: 56 miles. (Total accumulated miles since leaving Nashville was 284 river miles.  Double Island is located 100 road miles from Nashville!) En route to Double Island We stayed inside the commercial channel by keeping the red buoys to port. But the buoy pictured above, had been moved from its… Continue reading

Oct 23; Mile 96; Today’s run 31 miles “How much water is there in the channel going into the marina ?” we asked a local boater who had recently been there.”Well, it’s pretty shallow,” he said. There’s enough there but it will pucker you up going in. “ Confirming the marina’s buoyed entrance, we pulled… Continue reading

Oct. 22; mile 66; today’s run: 43 miles From Nashville, we retraced our route back to Green Turtle Bay, stopping again at Clarksville, and overnighting at Dover Island. After our friends left us in Green Turtle Bay, our next destination was Paris Landing on the Tennessee River. Land Between the Lakes Lake Barkley, a reservoir… Continue reading

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Oct 16; Cheatham Lock: mile 148: Rock Harbor: mile 190, today’s run 64 miles: (Two hundred miles from the Ohio River turnoff.) Note: If you double click on a picture, you can scroll through a slide show of pictures without the script. The pictures can be further enlarged by using the + sign at the… Continue reading

Oct. 1; Today’s run: 35 miles Clarksville: , population 178,000 including the metropolitan areas of Montgomery and Stewart counties. Between the years 1904 and 1909, local tobacco farmers rebelled against the American Tobacco Company which at one time, was one of the largest industrial monopolies in the U.S. The unrest was the start of one… Continue reading

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(Note: If you see 3 dots at the bottom of a post, click on those dots to read the entire post.) Sept. 30; mile 32; today’s run: 57 miles Earlier today, we left the Ohio River and turned onto the Cumberland River; (named for Prince William, the Duke of Cumberland, son of King George II).… Continue reading