Guntersville, Alabama to Joe Wheeler State Park, Alabama Returning to Guntersville Marina felt like old home week. Unfortunately, our covered slip was no longer available, and we were put out on the end of the slip as a lay along, and away from the dock mates that had become friends. […]
Goodbye Rocky Top, Hello Sweet Home Alabama Read More »
Lenoir City, TN to Guntersville, TN Sadly, it is time to head back down the Tennessee River. Our first day cruising the Tennessee River was July 16, just one month into our journey. Here we are a couple months heading back down. The cruise all the way up was about
What Goes Up, Must Come Down Read More »
Tellico Lake / Lenoir City, Tennessee We continued our exploring of the beautiful Tellico Lake and headed to Fort Loudoun Historic State Park. It was just around the bend from our marina on Tellico and they had a dock so we could take our dinghy over for a visit. We
Ten Mile to Lenoir City to Tellico Lake, TN And here we thought all the excitement was in Chattanooga! Our cruise to Fort Loudon proved to be very eventful, the type of events we would like to avoid, and it added several hours to our 50 miles, 1 lock trip.
To the Tennessee Smoky Mountains! Read More »
Guntersville, Alabama to Ten Mile Springs, Tenneseee Who knew after sitting still for 11 days, there would be so many last-minute things to do? We left Guntersville marina at 12:30 after the holiday weekend. The waters were beautiful and flat. Gone was the constant chop from the weekend that had
So much for cruising under the radar! Read More »
Guntersville, Alabama and a visit to Rocket City We settled into Guntersville Marina, Guntersville Lake on the Tennessee River planning to visit with a friend who moors his boat here. We kept a watchful eye on Ida building steam in the gulf, so we extended our stay beyond a long
Hello Ida & Rocket City Read More »
Iuka, Mississippi to Guntersville, Alabama We were prepared for an early departure from Aqua Yacht and woke to heavy fog. By the time we left the fuel dock after a pump out, the fog had lifted enough to see our way back onto the Tennessee River. Aqua is tucked back
Brief Time off Boat / Now or Never in Iuka, Mississippi We are back on the boat at Aqua Yacht and gearing up to cruise. After 25 days with our boat in NE Mississippi it is time to move on. The 25 days consisted of a trip home for the
On the water again Read More »
The adventures of Now or Never has slowed to a crawl, we are actually off the boat (for a week or so) getting some planned maintanance done. Upon our return, we will spend our remaining summer and fall on the Tennessee River, meeting up with other loopers in mid-October at
Tennessee River Summer Read More »
Shiloh, Tennessee Place of Peace. The Shiloh Church, built in 1851 was site of one of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War. We left Kentucky Lake and continued our way up the Tennessee River. Seems weird to say up, when we are traveling south but the river starts in
