39 miles and 1 lock today from Owensboro Kentucky to Evansville Indiana
It was a rather rollie and wavy night of sleep with or slip being right on the main channel and the barge traffic . We still both slept well and awoke Friday morning to a relaxing day. We were visited early in the morning by a very interesting character whom we had met last night . He was not quite all there and talked continuously while never really finishing a story. It was difficult to escape him but we did manage eventually.
After a bowl of cereal we shoved off from Owensboro fairly early and headed our towards Evansville Indiana. We came to our one lock of the day after only about 12 miles. Upon getting the lockmaster on the radio he said he'd have the lock ready for us and to come on in. He was a very friendly and conversational guy (we've not found this to be the norm). This was the cleanest (not a lot of debris to dodge ) and quickest lock through that we've had thus far. Approaching Evansville the Ohio River does a serious hairpin turn. There is no good boat access to downtown so we just cruised through slowly checking things out. One interesting thing is that because of this turn in the river there is a lot of silt build up in the river. They pump out this silt and put the nice sand in the top of the turn radius of the river to create a large sand island in the middle of the river. Only a couple more miles and we we were to Nu Plaza Yacht Club by shortly after noon. Not many people were around yet so we walked the docks and admired about 8 other Marinette boats. Sharon Doris, a person on the Marinette FB page had suggested we come here.
It is a very nice marina with brand new, really nice baths/shower/laundry. We pumped out, filled up w gas, and just relaxed for a while. The marina let us borrow their courtesy vehicle to drive into Walmart for provisions. The vehicle is a 1992 Chevy conversion van.....a real jewel! The owner and staff were very friendly and also gave us our slip for the night for FREE! We cooked and ate a nice dinner and then went down and hung out with two couples down at the end of the docks who were both Marinette owners. Had some good and fun conversations and idea swapping a out our boats. Another wonderful day.....the temps and humidity had dropped significantly so we came back to the boat and turned off the AC and opened up all the windows allowing for a very comfortable night's sleep.
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