JacketsIIOur Travels on Jackets II

  We left early and headed down to Joe Wheeler. We heard from “Headquarters” and they would be in Joe Wheeler tonight as well. There were two other looper boats at the Marina, Larry and Lola on ”Lola Maria” and Mike and Judy on “One September”. We all had dock tails on “Headquarters” then went…

  Well I started the morning by feeling oil between my toes as I stepped into the engine room. Not a fun way to start the day. Oil was leaking from the Port Engine. After investigating I determined it was leaking behind the pulley from the cam shaft. It took a couple of hours to…

We had been told that the trip to Chattanooga was beautiful. Well compared to the side trip to Nashville we were not impressed until today. WOW the river flows though a gorge into the city. It was beautiful. We travel through Chattanooga many time on I 24 when we lived in Nashville. I had never…

We got an early start again with hopes of getting to a free dock at a park just above the Nickajack Lock. The Fall colors are nice. It was Saturday after all and there was plenty of college football to watch so we stopped in the early afternoon. Larry from “Endeavor” meet us at the dock…

We got an early start and set our travel all the way to Guntersville about 85 miles. Just before the Guntersville lock we came across a beautiful bluff named “Painted Bluff”. We had about a two hour delay at the lock waiting on a large tow so we were close to sunset getting into the…

We called the lock and got an early start, we will be going through the largest lock of our trip. The Wilson lock is 94 feet. Before we could leave the Marina we stopped and enjoyed a flag raising and the National Anthem. This was done to begin the day of a fishing tournament. There…

We headed out early about 7am. It was a long day with one lock. Before we got to the lock we went by Cherry Mansion, where General Grant learned that the battle at Shiloh had begun.  Cherry Mansion is just down river from the Shiloh Battle ground. Thousands of men died here in the Civil…

The storm passed over as we slept, we waited for the restaurant to open since all the boaters get fresh hot cinnamon rolls. They were worth the wait. We continued to travel south and anchored by ourselves in Shallow Bluff. This is a small area right along the Tennessee river. During the night I heard…

We had scheduled to have the broken line cutter replaced the next morning by Boat Works. They had the part and had us up and going before 11 am. I can definitely recommend Boat Works they treated us very fair and got us in and out quickly.  We cruised down to Pebble Isle Marina, nice…

Great news this morning, Cash Haddon Jensen was born this morning; he and Amy are doing great. We had an easy cruise into Green Turtle Marina. We went to dinner with Joe and Tara at Patti’s in Grand River. We will be leaving them here as we have decided to go to the AGLCA Rendezvous….