29 Sep 17

We were up at 06:00 again - another long day and one more lock to get through. The anchor was aweigh by 07:00 and we crept back out of the narrow, shallow channel through the heavy mist “smoke on the water”. The first four hours were uneventful - only one bridge. At 11:00 we passed the “Charlie G” again and raced on to the final lock, the LaGrange Lock, to get there before any commercial traffic could hold us up. The lock had the gates open for us and we were in and out in 10 minutes; brilliant!! Two and a half hours later we poked into a couple of prospective anchorages at Big Blue Island, but both were two shallow for us to get sufficiently far off the commercial channel to be comfortable. So, we carried on down the river. After we crossed under the Florence Road lift bridge there was a bit of 10 ft deep water close to the right down-bound (RDB) bank, out of the channel and protected by the bridge support abutments, so we pulled over and got the hook down at 15:45. We crossed to the south of the 40th parallel for the first time in 3 years. Dinner aboard (duh!) and early to bed. The Astros beat the Red Sox 3-2.

39-37.714’N, 090-36.490’W; Log = 56.2, Sum (2017) = 2380.5 N-m