Monday, June 11, 2007

Boating on a Sunday Afternoon

My wife and I decided to go for a boat ride yesterday afternoon. The weather was very nice, warm and sunny. We left the marina and entered the main channel of the Tennessee River near the house, Fort Loudon Lake. The water was a bit choppy, due to the wakes and remnants of wakes left by other boats. We proceeded up river, meaning the red channel markers were on the right, green on the left. As we proceeded, the boat was running fine, and cruised well on plane. We approached the area around Concord Park and Concord Marina, and the water became noticeably choppier, and we spent most of the rest of the time running much slower, not on plane. We got bounced around quite a bit, and both of us decided we would avoid Sundays in favor of weekdays. The picture is a bit of an exaggeration of what we actually experienced, but there were moments that felt like this.

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