On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 10:27:27 -0500, rhys wrote:

On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 14:29:35 -0500, Rodney Myrvaagnes
wrote:

A terrific book indeed, but nothing about sailing. He used a 15-ft
aluminum runabout.

True, but I was thinking more about his descriptions of the crowded
barge conditions, the erratic and sometimes very strong currents and
the facilities (or lack of them) for recreational boaters.

I got the impression that wind or lack of it would be the least of
one's worries.

Exactly my impression from looking at it. I would not take a sailboat
on any part of the Mississipppi that I have seen, except powering to
move the boat somewhere else.

Rodney Myrvaagnes Opionated old geezer

Faith-based economics: It's deja voodoo all over again

William R. Watt wrote:
Anybody know about summer sailing on the Mississippi River?
How are the winds on the lower part, say below Kansas City?

I THINK you meant to say St. Louis...KC is a couple hundred miles
west...the Mississippi River doesn't go anywhere near it.

That said, Alton Lake--on the river near St. Louis--was pretty decent
small boat sailing when I was in college.



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