The Great Loop

This web site is an attempt to provide a quick and easy way for our family and freinds to keep up with us on "The Loop"

The Great Loop is a 6000 mile jouney down the Tennessee River and the Tombigbee Waterway to Mobile, Alabama. From there around the coast of Florida via Key West with a side trip to the Bahamas. Back to the coast of Florida we head up the east coast to the Chesapeake Bay. From the Chesapeake we continue up the east coast through New York Harbour, up the Hudon River, and across the Erie Canal. Through a series of canals we go across Lake Ontario into Canada. We will spend a month in Canada. Back to the US, we will cross Lake Michigan to Chicago. Following the Illinois, Mississippi, Ohio, and Cumberland Rivers back to Tennesse.


LOOP CLOSED: 8/12/09: 310 days, 6170 miles, 107 locks, 3 countries, 16 states, 85 different marinas, 10,050 gallons of diesel fuel, thousands of photos, countless new friends, and priceless memories...

Monday, August 17, 2009

Guntersville Yacht Club

Browns Ferry Nuclear plant....as we passed.....Nice day with scattered showers and one downpour.....We realize after this trip we need wipers on the upper deck........ Really gorgeous rock formations along the way.....everything is very green with all of the rain we have been having this year.


We only had one lock to get thru today....but a barge was once again ahead of us and we had a two hour wait.....sooooooo I just had to bake.....I wonder where all the pounds are coming from.........today it was peanut walnut bars with Hershey chocolate icing......YUM.....your own cooking even tastes good when you are waiting..........
Finally made it thru and here we are pulling into the Lake Guntersville Yacht Club.....boy, did they have damage from the high winds over Easter......they are still repairing boats and building new docks.

It is always a pleasure to visit here.....everyone is friendly, courtesy car, and the clubhouse has nice facilities.
The pool looks inviting...maybe the showers will subside long enough for us to take a dip.
On the other side it reads.....GOSSIP HALL....... I think that is accurate for most clubs....hee hee

They were preparing for the big Labor Day week end coming up.....cleaning the grounds and doing general repairs.


They made us feel welcome....we did laundry.....relaxed and are prepared for a jaunt to Chattanooga tomorrow............Knoxville here we come.....hope to be home on Monday......Man, oh man, is this going to be an adjustment......especially for Jerry.....I may have to put a porthole on the wall over the bed and find an iTune sound of water lapping against the hull ......

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