High Water

Some famous cruiser said the worst thing to have on a pleasure boat is a "Schedule", so we have abandoned ours, (the schedule not the plan). We will just wait and be patient (right).

Because of heavy rain in MO and IA and melting snow in southern WI the Mississippi is in major flood stage at many locations. The river in the St Louis area is high and still rising. Therefor we stayed home this week rather than going back to the boat as planned.

The forecast is for the river at St Charles to crest on May 6, (next Wed.) so we plan now to drive to the boat next week and do some work and shopping when we get there. Then hopefully by about the middle of May we can be under way to Lake Barkley.

Actually the Ohio and Missouri rivers both of which were in flood stage early have receded and are now OK. So all we need is for the Mississippi above St. Louis to recede some.

We will post again when we get aboard, hopefully next week.