Day 36 Pebble Isle to Kenlake Marina
October 24, 2006 3 Comments
Raising a sunken river barge
Another cold day with ice and frost on the boat and docks. However, the sun was out and with the heat on it was beautiful cruising. We filled up with diesel and pumped out the holding tank for the winter before leaving Pebble Isle Marina around 9:15. Today we saw many more migrating birds resting on the river. One group looked like White Pelicans and another Snow Geese. At mile 49 a barge was being raised from the bottom about 50 feet down. It sank in the channel just before we left in September. Divers have to go down to attach cables and then the four cranes raise it to the surface. It’s a major operation. After the barge raising it was just 6 miles to our home port. Our son Andrew is driving up to take us back to Nashville. All in all we had a fun and successful trip with 2100 photos taken and 1200 miles covered.
About Bob Duthie
Bob & Mavis:
Welcome back to your land based home. Ellie and I are looking forward to a dinner soon, and I’m ready to see all 2100 photos!
Bart
I am a writer for the Chattanooga Times Free Press and would like to do a story on your trip. If you are agreeable to this, my home phone is (706) 965-5756; cell (423) 645-3768. Dan Cook
I have really enjoyed reading your blog. I came across your blog by accident. We have seen the Bullish yacht in Orange Beach, AL and on the Tennessee River just below Chattanooga so we Googled Bullish to see if there was any information on it and we found your blog. I have always dreamed of cruizing the Tennessee River and your daily blog makes it sound very interesting. Hopefully I can do it one day when the kids are older. Thanks again for documenting your trip.
Jeff