Need information regarding taking my sailboat from Kansas City to the Gulf
via the rivers. All informnation welcome

The Mississippi is dangerous for a sailboat.
Currents, shoals, idiotic barge traffic that
is totally out of control.

Recommend taking Missouri River to Mississippi
And Mississippi to Ohio River. go up Ohio River
to Tennessee River and get on the Tenn.-Tombigbee
Waterway to Mobile Bay.

S.Simon


"John Ryan" wrote in message ...
Need information regarding taking my sailboat from Kansas City to the Gulf
via the rivers. All informnation welcome

Also go at what the river people call low water. High water is when it
floods high, wide, and fast. Those rivers are also full of debris and silt.
The silt will chew up impellers, shafts and props big time. Boat captains I
talk to down at the lower end use stainless steel or monel for those parts.
Unless you are real stuck on going straight south AND if you have the power
to do it (similar to going up the Ohio) go up to Chicago through the canal
into the Great Lakes (actually inland seas) and down to the Hudson
River/Canal System to NYC then around NJ to the Delaware Canal, the
Chesapeake and the ICW or outside on the Atlantic. Best people to talk to ,
back to your original question, are the tug and barge captains. They know
the river best.

MST

John Ryan wrote:

Need information regarding taking my sailboat from Kansas City to the Gulf
via the rivers. All informnation welcome

I'd suggest trucking it to either the Gulf or the Great Lakes. The inland
rivers are not a good place for a sailboat, unless it's an unconventional
design. You'll save a lot of time and it won't cost much more than delivering
the boat on her own bottom via the rivers & locks; another point is that
trucking the wear & tear on the boat plus the risk of damage is much less.

Fresh Breezes- Doug King