Anchor was pulled out of Dewayne Hayes Recreation Area at 6:30 this morning. A light rain fell for about the first hour of travel. Nine fifteen put us in Aberdeen Lock where Ray was looking for the bow boat pole we usually use during locking. No where to be found. I guess somehow it did not get put away in the chain locker and disappeared off the boat. The stern boat pole was used and we were out of there by 9:30 a.m. I had one question for the lockmaster upon our departure though. Why was the flag at half mast? The lockmaster was not entirely sure other than as a memorial handed down "from the top" yesterday as he stated. He played with the possibility of it being because B. B. King died yesterday and we were in Mississippi. That gave me some information I thought I might be missing as I do not keep up with current events much at all. He thanked me for reminding him though, as he was probably supposed to raise it back up today.
The second lock for the day was Amory about two hours later. It's flag was at full mast but blowing to indicate a starboard tie in the lock instead of the port tie we have been doing. Our first tie in Coffeeville Lock was a starboard tie, but we found that the dinghy sticks out farther on the starboard side on it's new apparatus. Therefore we switched to port side after that.
Starboard tie worked both in Amory Lock and Wilkins Lock about an hour after that. An hour and a half later we were through our fourth and final lock for the day, Fulton. Just north of Fulton Lock we dropped anchor for the evening. We weren't here long when it started raining just a little from a passing cloud. A couple hours later and it has been a pretty constant downpour ever since.
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