AS29 - Advanced Sharpie 29'

Lollygag is a, professionally designed, home-built sailboat (with modifications.) She is a Catboat Yawl with a Gaff Rigged Main and Marconi Mizzen.

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Tenn-Tom Divide Cut; October 25, 2011


Completed the 24 mile long section of the Tenn-Tom called
the Divide Cut.
Today definitely made the top 10 list!


Follow the buoys for right turn into the Cut.

Just around the corner

At first I thought this was a snag, but it was moving.....

If you want to get to the other side, you gotta swim


The Divide Cut is 280 feet wide, bank to bank

Even though both sides are covered with rock rip-rap,
Mother Nature has given the whole area a park like appearance.

It's illegal to anchor in the Divide Cut

Even though the Divide Cut was fairly straight, it does have a few bends.
We met our first tow in this narrow bend - can you see it's nose?

We quickly moved to the inside of the bend

After you say goodbye to the rip-rap shoreline, 
you say hello to wide water in the Bay Springs Lake.


You need to stay in the channel to avoid snags from where
timber was cut or there were standing trees before the lake was created.


We headed into a cove where our only company is trees.

Our buoy on the end of a trip line. The other end is rigged on
the anchor in case it gets hung up on a snag.

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