[Rhodes22-list] Mississippi River

[Steven Alm]

Thanks to all who responded.  We're in the process of collecting charts and
other info.  It's not likely that we'd take a very loooong trip.  We're not
setting our sights on NOLA or anything like that.  Or even Memphis--sorry,
Brad.  Maybe the Quad Cities.  Even that's pretty adventurous for us.

We'd launch the boat someplace where we could safely leave it for a couple
days.  Probably Lake Pepin which is not really a "lake" but just wide
river.  Then drive the empty trailer and a second vehicle and go south as
far as...who knows.  Leave the trailer there and drive back to the boat in
the second car.

But as Richard points out, I wonder how much actual sailing we'd do.  Which
makes me wonder how much I can rely on our 11 year-old Merc 8.0.  We've been
on the river a lot with our fishing boat and have had plenty of experience
getting out of the way of the big barges--sometimes as many as six tied
together.  But with a Lund 17' and a Johnson 35, it's speedy and easily
maneuvered.  The Rhodes, not so much.

We think the trip would be pretty dog-friendly and we'd plan on beaching or
docking early and often for that reason.

Lots more research to be done.

Slim

On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 11:48 PM, Chris Geankoplis <napoli68 at charter.net>
wrote:

> Hey Slim
>            Check our No. 51 may/june of Small Craft Advisor there is a
> story of a couple who went down the Big Muddy from around your neck of the
> woods.  They were on a 17 foot Norse boat.  Good article, but I think the
> spent way too much money (from my cheapskate point of view ---$3130)  At
> that price you could ship your boat on deck cargo to Greece and have a
> Rhodes in Rhodes!
>
> Chris G
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Steven Alm" <stevenalm at gmail.com>
> To: "Rhodes" <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
> Sent: Saturday, May 10, 2008 4:43 PM
> Subject: [Rhodes22-list] Mississippi River
>
>
> > Hey Rod and Mary,
> >
> > Have you ever taken a trip down the river?  Mary Ann and I have always
> > fantasized about a Mississippi voyage.  Do you think this would be
> doable
> on
> > an R22?  There's lots of towns along the way to stop and visit and you
> could
> > beach almost anywhere.  It's a commercial waterway and so it's main
> channel
> > is maintained at a 12 foot minimum.   We'd go down but not back up.
>  We'd
> > have to arrange someone to meet us with a trailer somewhere downstream.
> One
> > downside is that I wouldn't really want to swim in it.  Any thoughts
> anyone?
> >
> > Huckleberry Slim
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