Posted: 6/3/2011 12:58:10 PM EDT
| Friend at work is talking about going on a boat trip through the Tennesee river. What do you need to do to pass through the locks? I told him he probably needed a marine radio so that he could communicate with the lock operator, other than that, I don't know. I assume they must let any registered water craft pass through? He has a pontoon. |
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Quoted: DZL Benz, thanks for the link, LM, thanks for the tip. I wouldn't mind making that trip someday myself. Having been through the Panama Canal, I think it would be very cool to travel through locks in the US. Met a guy once who rode with some friends on PWCs down the Upper Mississippi. The camped on river banks at night. Sounded like a blast! |
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DZL Benz, thanks for the link, LM, thanks for the tip. I wouldn't mind making that trip someday myself. Having been through the Panama Canal, I think it would be very cool to travel through locks in the US. Met a guy once who rode with some friends on PWCs down the Upper Mississippi. The camped on river banks at night. Sounded like a blast! When I was a kid in the Boy Scouts, we went on 5 day canoe trips down the Wabash river. Of course, we had no locks to go through, but it was a blast indeed! I'd love to relive those days. |
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Make sure you take line for tieing off. A radio is not required, but everything else to make the CG is. I've seen a 18 foot dingy sailboat lock through alone on Lock 25, the last one before Alton. My boat is a 14' jon. I'd feel smaller than a toy in a bathtub! 
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