One Thing Leads to Another

November 29, 2007 - Everything going great - but wait! We go thru our first of serveral locks on the Tenn Tom. We call the lockmaster to lock-thru and he asks us to switch to channel 18 US - not international. We didn't know we were international! So of course we don't know how to switch radio without reading the manual. So I going digging thru our electronics bag looking for the portable radio. By the time I find it Paul and the lockmaster have agreed to go to another channel. So anyhow we are locking thru - I do my job of throwing the line over the bollard - and then I notice that the swim platform if down in the water. For those who have not been on our boat, we have a hydraulic swim platform for the our yet to be bought dingy. So Captain Paul can't of course figure out why the swim platform in in the water! You can't travel far with it that way. Then it becomes clear that when I was digging in the electronics bag I set off the remote for the platform.
Paul was able to go into the lazerette and found a reset button that made it come back up.

So as I said - One thing leads to another! On we go to Midway Marina where temp is 52, water 53.8. We borrowed their courtesy car and went to Walmart - the only place I seem to shop!