Beginning in Granville Tennessee at the Wildwood Marina, we have set off for a leisurely cruise in our little catamaran cruiser houseboat down the Cumberland River. A cruise that will eventually take us back to our home port on the Little Tennessee River near Vonore, Tennessee, about a thousand river miles distant. My wife, Susan, and I, are rank novice riverboat travelers so we plan to go very slow and easy, hence the name of our houseboat, "SLOMO".
Our goal today, however, is only to make it a few miles to stage for locking downbound through Cordell Hull Lock.
The U.S Army Corps of Engineers require a 48hour notice to lock through this dam because it is low use and typically unmanned. We built in plenty of