The next morning was still quite windy coming from across the river. The river made a turn back to the south which put the winds mostly at our backs.
When we approached dam #19 at Keokuk, IA the workers were doing some sort of maintenance on a barge deck. They started filling for us but we had to hold steady for close to a half hour. All the wind was funneling into the corner between a plant of some sort in the water and the dam. The waves were huge and turbulent. We ended up taking on a bunch of water from them breaking over the gunnel, but we bailed it out while we "locked down" 38 feet.
The rest of the day was calmer under the dam. We made it to the MO border and then some. Making 31 miles before setting up camp on Buzzard Island.
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