Saturday, started at 6 am to beat a tow boat to the first lock.  We had a stiff breeze  out of the Marina so we sprung the boat off with ease.  Boat lines used correctly are your friend!  We set our speed at 2150 RPMs and headed up river into very stiff current.It rained a cold rain all day We breezed through 4 locks witoutissue or wait time. Two of the locks had short secondary locks so we sailed through even with Tows in the main lock!  Sweet!  We decided to push on and make five locks and get into the next town and through one more lock and dam.  As we entered the lock the starboard engine died! As we tied up on the wall the port went out.  After much head scratching we deducted we ran out on fuel even though my math said we had 50 gallons left.  This is not a good thing with these motors to get them started you have to bleed the air out of the fuel system.  One of the lock guys crawled down into the engine room and worked for a while as I called boat US for a tow and a marina for marine engine mechanics.   Two guys showed up and we began a process bleeding the lines and filling some 60 gallons of fuel from 5 gallon cans, four trips worth.  After 4 and ½ hours in the lock we got them started. And left the lock for the closest marina in Clinton Iowa.  We docked at 10 pm . We were very blessed as to where we ran out of fuel rather than in a river running at 6 knots and at a lock with 0 barge or pleasure craft traffic.  Both mechanics and the two guys at Lock 13 were fantastic!!!

Sunday   Now you are all trying to figure out how I could be so stupid,  but as Paul Harvey would say “and now for the rest of the story”  as will filled up at 8 AM we found that my fuel tank only holds 350 gallons of fuel , contrary to what the specs show as 400.  So my math was correct on fuel required!  Quite the lesson!  Today we traveled about 100 miles to Guttenberg Iowa.  It rained hard most of the day.  Nothing notable happened THANK GOD! 

Internet is bad so will post pictures when we get a good signal!