We've owned the boat for ten years and are just discovering this "feature." I don't guess it will be a problem when we get back to Florida, but for now it is driving me crazy. Nothing like a good splash to wake you up in the middle of the night. Unfortunately, one of the surfaces below two of the big hatches is our bed, specifically my side of our bed. The warm air inside the boat meets the cold temperature outside the boat at the plexiglas hatches, condenses on the inside of the hatches and then drops from the hatches (which are installed at an angle) onto the surface below. We have also discovered that in extremely cold temperatures, it rains inside the boat. So we ended up staying an extra day in the marina in Columbus, Mississippi because the forecast was for 25 degrees.
NINA AND PINTA CHATTANOOGA GENERATOR
But if we anchor out and the temperature drops below freezing, the only way to keep from freezing ourselves would be to run the generator all night. But the heat pump runs on 110 volt power which we can get either by plugging into a marina's power or by running our generator.
As a Florida-built boat, Down Time has a heat pump that provides both heat and air conditioning, just like a home heat pump does. Some boats are built with heaters that run off of propane or diesel fuel. In the three weeks since we left the Knoxville area, we have had 5-7 days of below 30 degree temperatures. It was actually too cold to move the boat. So the Corps of Engineers devised these special flow control areas to break up the creeks and feed the water gently into the Tenn Tom. The water flow would push traveling boats, especially small pleasure craft all over the narrow ditch. There are several large creeks in the area where the ditch was dug, but the ditch is too narrow to let those creeks flow directly into the ditch.
NINA AND PINTA CHATTANOOGA SERIES
There is a 25 mile ditch dug between the Tennessee and the headwaters of the Tombigbee and a series of dams that ensure the river remains deep enough to support year round commercial tug/barge traffic. The locals started agitating to dam the river and connect it to the Tennessee as early as the 1870s, although Congress didn't approve the project until the late 1940s and didn't fund it until the 1970s. The rest of the year there wasn't enough water to support even the shallow draft paddle-wheelers. The Tombigbee River was a commercial river as early as the 1830s, although river boats could only run on it during the rainy season, which ran from November to April. We are half way through the Tennessee Tombigbee Waterway, the Army Corps of Engineers created link between the Tennessee River and the Gulf of Mexico.
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