Chickamauga

We departed downtown Chattanooga just after seven o'clock this morning.  We remembered last night that it would be light a little later now that we were in the Eastern Time Zone again.  At 8:20 there were three of us in Chickamauga Lock for a 48 foot lift that took about 20 minutes.  Another 20 minutes later and we were docked at Chickamauga Marina to fuel up and pump out.  I filled up with water while there also.  An hour later we were headed 20 minutes across the lake to Gold Point Marina.  I pulled into slip BL09 while "Conched Out Too" pulled on the outside of B Dock.
After some hellos I got the Caprice started and pulled over to the top of the ramp to pick everyone up with their shopping bags and core batteries.
It wasn't until 2:00 p.m. that I was all set after loading groceries and eating lunch to head to the Hiwassee River.  "Conched Out Too" departed shortly thereafter waiting for their water tanks to get filled.
After 29.2 miles of up river travel, we found "Doug Out" and "LivEZ" anchored and rafted together as planned.  The rest of us questioned as to the plan of being anchored so close to shore.  Some wind kicked up and they were not swung the way that was intended.  The idea was for me to set my anchor out away from them then raft to them so that my anchor would pull us around in a better direction. That was semi-completed after the second attempt, but the wind direction was not going to change which way we were going to swing.  The wind got worse as "Conched Out Too" attempted to raft to me in the same manner.  It took a few attempts, one we had to abort because once we did get a line from them, my stern line came unattached from "LivEZ" and there was no way I could swing us both into position.  The successful landing did not include "Conched Out Too" getting their anchor down. Bill Livezey and Doug ended up taking it out via Bill's dinghy "Little EZ".  All of that was finally accomplished at about 7:00 p.m.
"Makin Memories" came to join the raft up a short time later.  By then the water was almost as flat as glass.  Go figure.