Larabeck
home
Sailing
from Alton, Illinois to Fort Myers, Florida
Down the Mississippi
and Ohio
Alton,
Illinois to Kimmswick, Missouri (just south of St.
Louis)
November 2009
Our guests
are Jim and Janet Sliger. They own Fun Factor and were our neighbors
at Harbor Point Yacht Club in West Alton on the Mississippi.
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7AM: we
are ready to leave
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St. Louis
Arch
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St. Louis
Arch
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Downtown
St. Louis
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Kimmswick
to Green Turtle Bay Marina, Grand Rivers, Kentucky
November
24-27, 2009
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Stayed
one night at Kaskaskia River Lock
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One night
in a
small channel
near Cape
Girardeau,
MO
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Thanksgiving
night
on the Ohio
River;
by morning
we had
ice on the
boat.
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Sailing
under the
I-24 Bridge
near Metropolis, Illinois
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Kentucky
Lock
and Dam
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Green
Turtle Bay
Marina. Grand
Rivers, Kentucky
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Next:
Grand
Rivers, Kentucky to Mobile, Alabama
Mobile,
Alabama to Fort Myers, Florida
If you
want to know more about the journey of the Grafs who are sailing
from Illinois
to the South Pacific, go to the Larabeck
home
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