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I am not sure if I have adequately explained the different sections of the rivers once we left the Tennessee River. I did mention the Tenn-Tom Waterway Project at 253 miles connected the Tennessee River with the east branch of the Tombigbee River. Near Demopolis this project joins the already navigable Black Warrior River System. From Demopolis the maps are called the Lower Black Warrior Tombigbee River. Other smaller rivers like the Alabama River and Mobile River flow into this system and eventually out into Mobile Bay. In all we had to drop 341 feet in 11 locks to get to sea level.
As we approached the Yacht Basin at Demopolis, it was busy as expected. Three boats arrived about an hour before we did so we slowed down knowing that they were getting fuel and so were we. When we finally did arrive, we were asked to wait in the river and so we did for about an hour. I did so many donuts out there that even Serendipity (the second slowest boat that we have come across) caught up to us. When two of the boats left, we entered and tied to the fuel dock and found out that that was our space for the night expect that another boat had to be squeezed in somehow. In the end, Serendipity with 1/3 of their boat hanging off the end of the fuel dock, parked behind us basically cutting off access to the fuel dock for smaller boats. On the other side of the dock was space for tow boats to fuel up and indeed one did....at midnight he arrived and he pushed off at 4:00 AM. Not the best sleep that night. I was not disappointed that we were only allowed to stay one night.
Oh well, this was the Marriott compared to our up coming options for the next 140 miles.
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