October 9, 2013 Cumberland Towhead

It was a normal morning departure again this morning.  The very strong current proved not to be as troublesome as I thought.  It just took a little longer to get the anchor up.

Lock 53 as we drive right over the wicket damn

We headed out into the river and made it to lock #52 which, like the previous lock, 53, was open.  In other words we just drove over the wicket damn.  Fierce current but otherwise no trouble.  Much better than locking though these notoriously busy locks.

Anchored at Cumberland towhead

After a few miles further up stream we came to Cumberland Island towhead, our anchorage for the night.  It was a bit early but after the 70-90 miles days we had been logging of late it was a refreshing change.  We again went in first and found deep water nestled in a nice little channel well off the river.  The other boats followed in and tied off to us.  And so here are are in a quiet backwater preparing to enter the Cumberland River tomorrow.

Sweet!