Tuesday Oct. 28, 2014

Free Dock in Guntersville, Al.

We pulled up anchor and were on our way with Moondance at 0806. Guntersville Lake is one of the largest lakes on the Tennessee so it was a calm day boating with no locks. Bright Angel caught up with us later in the morning as they had pulled into the marina at Hales Bar while we anchored out. They were headed to Goose Pond Marina where they had an appointment with a diesel mechanic to try and solve an oil leak. Moondance had told us as we left the anchorage that there was a weather forecast for squalls and storms that evening so they were going to go into Goose Pond also. We had heard thru the Looper vine that diesel fuel was $ 3.99 a gallon there and they needed fuel. They pulled in and we decided it was too early and too nice of a day to stop that soon so we pressed on. Dan, another Looper on Potest Fieri, had told me about a free dock right in downtown Guntersville. Free is good. We cruised into the Guntersville free dock at 1522 hours. Got tied up to the nice floating dock and headed into town. Did a quick reconnoiter of the downtown and returned to the boat. The restaurant we wanted to go to because of such great reviews was only open for lunch on Tuesday so we went to the Bridge’s Café which is a Brazilian Steak House in downtown Guntersville, Alabama. Go figure. The burgers were really good and we watched the Royals destroy the Giants in the series. Finished listening to the game on the boat as we were the only customers’ in the place by the 4^th innings.

The free Guntersville dock where we stayed