Saturday - November 13, 2010

Lat33 50 43' long 88 30 50; engine 511.00; 180 gal
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See above for the boat that swamped us. I think Russ might like it but I don't think he would be and IA. Left Columbus marina at 7:00 this morning since a few boats had already pulled out and we could see them waiting a the lock. Hustled over to make the lock and again we were lucky and got right in. if we missed that lock through we would have had to wait another hour. Had breakfast while we were locking through.

Joined up with another boat Pleasant Moment and followed them for most of the day as we would probably go through the locks with them, so we decided to follow. When we got to the nest lock we were joined by another Canadian on Irish Ayes registered out of Virginia. I get the feeling that he is delivering the boat to Florida as it is definitely a Florida fishing boat. He told us he was from Toronto. Anyways after the lock was opened he traveled with us as his engines were acting up and he couldn't get much speed.

Around Mile 270, Pleasant Moment left us to anchor and Irish Ayes and ourselves continued on to look for another anchorage. Went into one where it got shallow real quick, as the bottom was touching the mud on the river. It looked like I could get stuck but I gave the engine a boost and we fortunately got free and continued down the river. Went through the next lock and immediately to starboard was a nice anchorage which was part of the original Tombigbee river. Anchored in 20 feet of water and sat back for the evening.

Tomorrow we have an easy run to Demopolis which is the end of the Ten-Tom waterway. need to fill up on water and pump the tanks. It's now 6:30 here and I feel like going to bed; it gets dark so early.