We spent two uneventful days at Grand Harbor waiting for
repairs and for Patricia to pass.
Finally on Wednesday morning, the TV was fixed (yeah), the windlass was
working (yeah), and the rain had passed (we thought). We had docktails one evening aboard No Zip Code (Kenny and Kathy). Jonathan (Salty) was also there. We pulled out of Grand Harbor at 7:00 am and
turned south on the Tombigbee for the last leg of our trip. We saw blue sky for a few minutes around 8:30
but it was rainy most of the morning. It
finally cleared up in the afternoon. The weather the rest of the week was great. Friday morning it was very chilly (48 deg) and very foggy when we left our anchorage, but cleared up after that. We anchored out 3 nights before pulling into Demopolis on Saturday. We went through 10 locks with only a 30 minute wait twice. The anchorages ranged from nice (Fulton Lock) to nicer (Columbus Cutoff) to great (Rattlesnake 1). Wednesday and Thursday we traveled about 60 miles each day; Friday was a long day - 105 miles, 11 hours (our longest day). We were a little tired but happy to pull into a great anchorage. Already anchored were Kilt Dancer, Melinda B, Pearl, Firebird and Moni Joan. We left our anchorage Saturday around 8:50 for a quick 9 mile trip to
Demopolis. We fueled up and were in our
slip by 10:00. After a quick trip to
Walmart (along with Rob and Sandy from Sandrobber), we just settled in for a rainy day. We were supposed to get the courtesy car to go out to dinner, but when we went to get it (in the pouring rain), there was no record that we had reserved it. So back to the boat for dinner.
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