Paradise Mississippi Style

Kerm here,

We're still at the waterfall anchorage as we believe that it would be hard to beat the beauty and advantages that this place has.  Wind protection, being able to pull right up to shore plus the phones and WiFi work.  So it looks like one more day and night before we push on to the Tenn-Tom Waterway on our way to Demopolis and then Mobile.

Good news.  Bill Collins, our old friend, will be leaving the Kentucky Dam Marina in the next couple of days and will meet up with us sometime in the next week or so.  We are in an old 'crawler trawler' and his boat is in a class of fast trawlers so catching up should be a breeze.

I found the problem with the lower station depth meter after considerable troubleshooting.  The sender is in a well attached to the inside of the hull.  It's supposed to be filled with antifreeze for the sender to work.  The epoxy holding it to the hull partially broke away and the antifreeze spilled out.  All I had to do was re-epoxy the well to the hull, fill 'er up with antifreeze and presto the depth meter works.

An affliction that hits all loopers is that a brown stain forms on the front of the hull  where the bow wave comes up. The stain is caused by all the tannin in the river water.  You can almost tell where a looper has been by the severity of the 'mustache'.   As the Belle is pulled to shore I took the opportunity to polish out the brown and give it a coat of wax.  It looks decent but now it's the whitest part of the boat.

Today, Chris and I will be coating some of the teak with Semco but for the most part we will be taking it easy and perhaps knock back a couple hundred pages of a book.  I'm teaching Ruby, from our buddy boat, how to play cribbage so that may be in order for a happy hour activity. 

Weather report...37degrees outside this morning.