The India Jayne
Kit and Pam traveling the Great Loop on our Mainship 430 Trawler
Saturday, July 22, 2017
And where we are now...
December 2016 led us home to California for the Holidays. Family need has kept us home since then. The IndiaJayne has been temporarily stored on the hard in a hurricane rated storage facility, River Forest Marina, La Belle, Fl. Our plan is to get back to the boat some time in November 2017 and continue our amazing journey of exploration on the eastern part of the U.S. waterways. We are looking forward to seeing old friends and making new friends on the water.
Tuesday, October 25, 2016
10/22/16
A few shots of India Jayne taken from other boats:
Once on the Ohio we are going up stream against 1.5-2 knots of current.
A few shots of India Jayne taken from other boats:
On the Ohio |
Uh Oh! |
Power failure at Little Diversion on The Mississippi |
India Jayne entering the Olmstead Lock on the Ohio |
Denise (S/V Gracie) and Pam consulting on navigation devices |
Rafted up at Little Diversion, 5 boats |
Hamp (from Gracie) towing a tree away from our boats |
Once on the Ohio we are going up stream against 1.5-2 knots of current.
It's a big change from the 5 kt boost you get going down the wild, swirling, up-welling and raucous Mississippi.
Up the Ohio |
Underway on the Ohio towards the Cumberland R. But wait! Who's driving? |
Really, shouldn't someone be looking ahead?? |
River tug boats |
Having the 2" pork chop at Patti's 1880s Settlement, Grand Rivers, Ky. |
Our old Looper buddies from M/V Paraiso, Chris and Janis Soper, drove 5 hours from clear up north to visit us here at Kentucky Dam Marina. Wow! Thanks, Guys! |
Saturday, October 22, 2016
October 19, 2016: The End of the Great Loop
Changing of the burgee flags. Yahoo!!
After a year and two weeks we pulled into Green Turtle Bay where we "crossed our wake", completing the Great Loop, and we were congratulated all around by the numerous Loopers here. It seemed seemed so different, in a good way, to enter a marina we had actually been to before and is somewhat familiar. Every other stop for the last year has been a strange new place, each with it's own set of instructions as to how to enter, where are the shallow spots, where is our assigned slip, bow or stern in, port or starboard tie-up, etc. Some were pretty easy; some were white knuckles with weird currents, winds, depths. Amazingly, although we've been in some tight, challenging spots, our encounters with immovable objects have been benign. Our boat remains unscathed.
We have been through big rivers and their huge locks, small channels with tight clearances, long range cruises on the Gulf of Mexico, shallow waters of the Keys, the Atlantic Ocean and all sorts of boating and navigational challenges. It feels great to have done it all without serious mishap. It is a truly awesome adventure I would recommend to any boating enthusiast.
Another shot of the St L Arch on the Mississippi |
Riverside greenery |
Tiny homes? |
We tied to a mooring cell to wait for lockage; it had very nasty with steel boat-eaters sticking out all over. |
Veritas waiting for the tow to pass before our turn |
Industrial enterprises abound |
Barge tows all around |
Birds on watch |
Chocolate Mississippi River |
S/V Two Infinity |
S/V Veritas |
Barges galore |
Car ferry on the Illinois |
Re-enactors' camp and festival, Illinois R. |
Fixer-upper |
Might flood! |
Fast River Shark |
Entrance to Alton Marina, Ill., on the Miss. |
Bridges across the Mississippi at St. Louis |
Downtown St. Louis |
Hoppie's Marine. (Barges tied to M. River bank.) |
Cliffs |
Bluff, train, barge |
Dangerous River Pirates. Our cannons held them off. |
Stardust, Capt. Rich and Tom |
Daring rescue of Gerald and Kit by Hamp Little River Diversion off Miss. R. |
Working late in the office |
Little River Diversion anchorage RR Bridge just off the Mississippi |
Bridges everywhere on the Illinois |
The bow is the front end |
Paint me |
Our mast was down to clear some low bridges near Chicago That's our radar antenna laying horizontally |
City of Joliet, Illinois Jake Blues once did time here |
Tied to Joliet City Wall |
Another floating casino |
Site of Lincoln and Douglas Debate |
The Wedge Bldg. |
Hard Dock Cafe with Gerald and Barb of Ontario |
Jeffery and Nolan from Two Infinity |
Rich, Denise and Hamp |
Barb on Hard Dock Cafe |
Gerald and Tom on Hard Dock Cafe |
Kaskaskia Lock Wall |
Dining aboard Hard Dock Cafe |
Barb and Nolan |
Jeff and Gerald |
Bluffs and loaded barges with train going by |
Pam Standing watch at helm |
Rafting at Little River Diversion |
Little River |
It's fast! |
Shooting Moon |
Olmstead Lock |
Power plant |
Cumberland Towhead anchorage on the Ohio and Cumberland junction |
Barkley Lock |
Docked at Green Turtle Bay, 1 year, two weeks later |
Back to the beginning, now with the Gold Burgee |
The coveted Gold Burgee, signifying completion of America's Great Loop, 6000 miles, will replace our white "in progress" burgee. |
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