August 15, 2006 Adventures Aboard The Great Escape


We were just about five minutes from Forest River where Maria and Cliff keep their boat so we called them and said to get on over after work because we were taking their boat out! We told them we caught a big river salmon for dinner too!

It was a good evening. Cliff puttered us over to a shady spot and we made dinner: salmon and broccoli. After we cleaned up that mess, an easy task of tossing paper plates into a trashbag, Cliff took us up river to the #5 lock. We had just walked along there! The water was shallow and he had to really watch to stay in the channel going up the little side river. We went up just a mile or so and turned around. Getting back into the main river was tricky. Cliff kept up far to the right hoping to stay in the unmarked channel. Kathy watched as the depth finder went from 7-feet down to flashing. We were grounded on a sandbar. Cliff's fast thinking had shut down the propeller. He and Will got out long telescoping sticks and tried to push us off the bar. We moved a little. Maria got up on the front and rocked the boat as they guys pushed. Little by little we moved off the bar and Kathy saw the depth finder move to 1.8-foot, then 1.9 and soon we were at 2-foot. Cliff started up the en!
gine and we puttered back to the main channel. It was even 40 feet at one point! It was dark and Cliff put on the traveling lights. Will was at the helm and brought us back to the dock. Cliff took over and settled us at the dock. We all helped shut things up and they headed for home. We snuggled into the roadtrek for a Westwing episode.

Kathy and Will
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