Yesterday an hour or so before reaching McAlpine Lock, John noticed that the port engine would not stay at the RPM that he had set. It would drop down and then lope back up on its own. He ran it up higher and it wanted to cut out altogether. He dropped the RPMs down a little and it was better. So, we ran a little slower after that. He figured it was a clogged fuel filter, but he didn't want to stop because we were fighting daylight as it was. So, first thing this morning, John got down in the engine room and changed the fuel filter. The old one was black. Most of the places we bought gas this spring we suspect had old fuel from last year. Once we were cruising along again today, everything was fine. (We forgot that we crossed into a different time zone yesterday and got up an hour earlier than we needed to. We had to wait an hour for it to get light out.)
We were moving along about 8 mph against the current. Not too bad. As we approached Markland Lock, we lost a boat pole overboard. It sunk. Oops! We arrived at Turtle Creek Marina at 3:45. We got fuel (202 gallons) and decided to stay here overnight. It's roughly 30 more miles to Lighthouse Point Yacht Club. We should arrive there tomorrow around lunchtime. We have passed through 143 locks in the past 3 1/2 years as we cruised the loop and more. We are so excited to be so close to being home and can't wait to see everyone, especially our grandchildren.
I am posting a couple of pictures from the last two days.
Louisville at night.
Ducks looking to be fed at 5:00 A.M. this morning.
The scene as we were leaving Louisville.
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