As you know from Jeff's blogs we continued from LaCrosse and spent Wed night at the very interesting town of McGregor, IA. The weather has yet to be our friend, with the predominate state being cold and windy. The scenery seems to be past the peak - the trees are not any prettier than they were in Stillwater when we left. The lock folks tell us we may not see an improvement until we reach the KY Lakes area. Now we keep 1-2 space heaters going on the bridge all the time to keep our toes and fingers nimble.
The marinas in LaCrosse and McGregor were of the small town, munincipal variety - older wooded docks, maybe water, but we were always tied up and plugged in to some sort of electrical source. We kept warm at night, anyway.
We are now underway headed for Dubuque, IA where we will be able to enjoy a "4 anchor" marina for a night or two. Right now we are still experiencing cold and wind but no rain yet. Forecast for Dubuque is rain starting this afternoon and continuing into tomorrow. If it gets too bad we will plan to stay holed up there an extra day until this front passes us by. The Dubuque Yacht Basis is part of the American Marine network of Silverton dealers where we bought our boat, so we have been offered complimentary transit docking there. This is a good thing since we may be there for more than one night.
I have been struggling with getting pictures to show up at the right spot on the blog pages, so I think I will post one or two at a time with a brief description for each set.
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Here is my list of overnight docks that had at least 5 feet of water next to the dock, from our trip in August 2008:
mm 772 lake city marina
mm 714 Sunset Bay Marina
mm 634.7 Isle of Capri Casino
mm 580.7 American Marine at Dubuque (you are going there today...be careful there was shallow spot just out front of docks)
mm 486.2 Isle of Capri (stay on No side only otherwise too shallow)
mm 404 Big Muddy Restaurant dock (no power, call carla 319-850-1067 for permission - restaurant closed due to flooding earlier, Bluff Harbor nearby TOO SHALLOW to enter, at least in August it was)
mm 282.3 Two Rivers Marina (careful on entry from river, stay in middle, we ran aground here, hopefully river is a foot higher or so now -but was only place to get fuel - was cheap #3.95)
mm 221.5 Port Charles Harbor
From here we came down from illinois River. Good luck! Call my mobile if questions 857-226-1265...stay warm!)
About American Marine in Dubuque...I know you have beautiful showers on your Silverton, but check out the new showers there...you will be glad you did. Also, food at the restaurant was very good. If you need wireless internet, the only place we could get it was to bring the laptop into the bar area, if your verizon card is having any problems. Could you tell the service manager there that the Kohler fuel pump did the trick for me - I installed it myself after having it fed exed ahead to LaCrosse area...I think they will remember me...another Silverton owner.
2 more spots I missed on previous post:
Hannibal, MO - we were able to tie up on the big wall along the river...it is very high, but we did find it secure, and you walk to town and explore all the Mark Twain relics. No water, no power.
Keokuk, Iowa - Keokuk Yacht Club, highly recommended too, got power and gas there.
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