The Ohio River

We are heading upstream on the Ohio.  We only have 45 miles to go before catching the Tennessee. We will be heading upstream on the Tennessee, also.  Let's just hope that the current is not at strong as the Ohio. 

We overnighted at this spot on the Ohio River.  It was about 20 miles up from the Mississippi River.

Our average speed was 3mph so it took us 10 hours.

This dam is being built on the Ohio River only about 10 miles up from the Mississippi.  No lock, yet, so we motored past at a snails pace. On up the river Tuesday, we crossed two spots where locks & dams had been situated but they have both recently been torn down.  They theory is that this one new dam above will replace the two old ones.  The last old dam was still being torn down and the turbulance there was strong.  Our average speed of 3mph was decreased to .9mph so we had to go full throttle which only pushed us up to 1.1mph for that one mile stretch. Not good. Tuesday we travelled 26 miles to the mouth of the Tennessee River and it took us about 10 hours.

Sunrise on the Tennessee River.  We are now officially in Kentucky.

The Tennessee River is much more calm with average speed against the current at 3.5.  The water is so clear that we can stand in it up to our waist & see our feet.  We are amazed! We have about 23 miles today but we started out an hour earlier this morning by getting up at 5:30.  We are also going faster but all may be lost when we get to the lock and dam at Kentucky Lake.  We shall see.  Beautiful sunny day. Temps in the low 90's.  Temps wouldn't be so bad, but it is so humid it feels like 103 degrees.