Center Hill / Percy Priest lake

[redneck joe]

Still haven't sold the Carver; tough to do with no lower unit but I don't want to buy it and start the warranty for a new owner. And I've sold the truck and bought a F150 which technically would do it but a 24 year old truck with ~300k miles is really not a tow vehicle imo.

So i'm paying $750 per year to store here in town, but looking at the rates on Guntersville (where we kept the big boat )for dry storage, with a lift isn't a huge amount more but, its a two hour drive. There is nothing on Tims Ford which is closest and the next is Center Hill or Percy priest only an hour or so.

What I can't seem to find is too many of the places that have the dry storage / fork.

anybody know?

 

[alldodge]

Don't know of any doing the fork lift dry storage, not much of a market in the TN/KY area

 

[southkogs]

Same here. ^^^

Some of the marinas, Like Fate Sanders on Priest, have an area where you can dry dock a larger boat outside for a time. But at most I see a few boats there each year. Otherwise, everything is floating in a slip. Elm Hill would be the biggest / fanciest marina on Priest, and I don't think they have anything like that either.

 

[southkogs]

... and in the single most ironic thing of the week ...

Drakes Creek up on Old Hickory Lake apparently has dry storage. Just saw an ad for it in my email :shocked:

 

[redneck joe]

Google is watching you.....



Thats as far as Guntersville for me and if going to make the drive we have friends there still.

 

[Rook66]

Percy Priest brings back memories and it changed my life forever. My dad was transferred on his job to Nashville from Knoxville in 1966. The first week I was there I was out sight seeing on my '66 Honda 305 Super Hawk motorcycle and came upon the construction of Percy Priest dam. I was amazed at the construction and became very interested in dams after that. I visited Percy Priest many times during that summer. I was fascinated by it.

That stuck with me and later in life I was working for TVA in Knoxville as a mechanical designer on nuclear plants and when the job came available in hydro I became a hydro inspector on TVA's damns along with joint inspections with the Army core of engineers on the locks on the Tennessee River. That was my dream job and made life a whole lot more enjoyable than working on those damn nuclear plants. Strange how that one day of sight seeing at that damn influenced my entire life.