Here's Dutchess underway (somewhere) on the rivers as observed by "Crossroads" as she passed us.
About 105 miles and 7 of the 10 locks on the Ten-Tom was what we had over these two days. Although I have the tracks for both of these legs above, I thought it might be instructive to look at the beginning of the Bay Springs to Midway leg which starts in the Marina, then goes 1/2 mile or to the John Stennis Lock (formerly Bay Springs). While we got up early, called the lock on the telephone and were assured that, "yeah, come on down, we'll get you through without much delay."
In this case, not much delay was 2 1/2 hours while we steered around in circles in the rain.
We did 5 locks that day and 2 the next. The drill was for me to suit up with rubber boots, and full four weather pants and jacket, go out on deck as we entered the lock, sat there as we locked through holding the mid-ship line on the floating bollard, go below after the lock, take off the gear, and put it back on again in 1-3 hours as we went through another lock.
This process was repeated, basically for two days and, as a reward for our hard work, got zero WI-FI on the boat - although it did exist in the marina building!
To top this off, the captain decided that we needed to stay at Columbus for two nights! While we had an enjoyable "shore liberty" with 6 other Loopers in Midway at a Mexican restaurant, I opted to stay on the boat the whole time we were in Columbus and not eat out.
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