Camping Out!

It is 164 miles to Paducah from where we were, Chris and I were not going to cruise at night, so we planned to anchor out about 50 miles away from Paducah.  Bubba and Anne wanted to try to make it to Paducah and had arranged to have a fuel drop on the way to Paducah.  The fuel drop location was one small dock and both of our boats could not tie up at the same time.  We chose to keep moving south and they could catch up to us. 

As we traveled south, Bubba and Anne tried to find a place to tie up to so that Dexter could reach land to do his business. They were not able to and Paducah said they had no room for them.  They decided to anchor out with us.  We had teased them that they would have to go camping sometime and so far during the loop they were always able to find a marina or wall to tie up to.  This time however, they were not able to find anything. 

We found a small creek that had less of a current than the Mississippi but still strong.  We went in until we saw 8 feet of water and then dropped our anchor.  It caught first time and we were held steady.  Bubba tried to lower his anchor and it did not deploy.   We tied up together for a minute and found that his boat being heavier was pushing us to the bank so we got Chris on Getaweigh to look at the anchor.   Chris and Bubba were able to get the anchor deployed and we then tied up together so we could hang out on the back of the boats.  We cooked wings and Italian sausage for dinner and felt comfortable that we were at a good anchor so we could sleep during the night.