Paducah KY
First, the good news - the vibration is gone!! We must have gotten some weeks wrapped around the prop when we made the 90 degree turn onto the Ohio River, and either it floated off during the night or came off when we reversed the boat, but we’re not broken!!
We left our anchorage around 7 am and arrived at the Olmstead Lock an hour later. They always lock commercial traffic through first, so there were some barges ahead of us. We only had to wait 2.5 hours and by that time, 3 other boats had joined us, so the lock master felt more justified locking us through and making the next barges wait. The Olmstead Lock was new 4 years ago, so it was in great shape and worked beautifully. We came up about 10 feet and were on our way to Paducah.
We arrived here at the city docks about 3 pm and John, the Harbormaster was waiting to help us tie up. One by one we all got tied up to the floating docks and we are pretty cozy! John is a magician when it comes to moving boats up and down the 2 sides of the dock to make room for more boats. As usual, we knew most of the folks who had arrived the day ahead of us.
I don’t know what I expected of Paducah, but it is a darling town and the entire downtown is on the Historic Registery for buildings. It was getting dark by the time we started the walk down there with Steve and Kathy, but it was an easy 10 minute walk to Brussard’s, a southern/Cajun restaurant with great food. After dinner we spent about an hour and a half walking all over downtown and it was a happening place. So many people out and about! We saw a guy painting a mural on a building wall, many restaurants and brew pubs with live music, horse and carriage rides going on, street performers and craftsmen performing their handiwork in the park. For all of you Gilmore Girls fans, you will know what I mean when I say it feels a little like Stars Hollow!!
All in all it was a good day. No more anchoring out for awhile, a safe place to be tied up to and a town that is entirely walkable.
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