Just completed a run from Markland to up the Cumberland to Hickory Lake in a small boat (by your standards, 45'). Have to say that creeping up the inside of the bends to escape the current led to some interesting encounters with down-bound tows. To someone just arriving in the pilothouse at the moment of meeting, it might look like death is imminent...
Man, that's Gods country! Fished a lot of tournaments out of Golconda and locked down Smithland locks just to run up the Cumberland and fish those two tiny little creeks where you started this vlog at.
Did you travel Barkley Lake or just get on in Paducah ? I have asked a few weeks ago if you travel Kentucky lake any, I am not that far from both and have fished them all my life. I have always saw a ton of barges on both lakes.
Great video .. I live close to the Brisbane River in Queensland Australia, and worked at a slipway where the tugs and river barges were hauled up, scraped down and painted .. until they sold the place for real estate, and the new slipway at the mouth of the river went non union and I had to go find another job .. bummer! The BR is only navigable for barge traffic for about thirty miles, the banks on both sides of the river have numerous navigation markers as per salt water shipping, whereas the upriver traffic steers toward different markers than the downriver side. I have watched a few tow boat vids, and have not seen any channel markers or any other sort of navigation aids at all .. wonder why :)
Thanks, cap. I just discovered you on youtube and subscribed to your channel. Really interesting. You do a great job videoing the life of a tugboat captain.
SO, Da boss lives up on the Ohio Eh.?? Somehow that does not seem proper to me, he should be liven in A place like Baa’Ton-Rouge or the likes....!! 🤷🏻♂️
You sure are good at Your job Man. Really enjoy these videos. Hope to see many more to come.
Just completed a run from Markland to up the Cumberland to Hickory Lake in a small boat (by your standards, 45'). Have to say that creeping up the inside of the bends to escape the current led to some interesting encounters with down-bound tows. To someone just arriving in the pilothouse at the moment of meeting, it might look like death is imminent...
Man, that's Gods country! Fished a lot of tournaments out of Golconda and locked down Smithland locks just to run up the Cumberland and fish those two tiny little creeks where you started this vlog at.
Did you travel Barkley Lake or just get on in Paducah ?
I have asked a few weeks ago if you travel Kentucky lake any, I am not that far from both and have fished them all my life. I have always saw a ton of barges on both lakes.
We came up the Ohio River and headed back down toward Baton Rouge
I've watched several of your vids and I was wondering if you ever made your way onto the Cumberland.
Great video ..
I live close to the Brisbane River in Queensland Australia, and worked at a slipway where the tugs and river barges were hauled up, scraped down and painted .. until they sold the place for real estate, and the new slipway at the mouth of the river went non union and I had to go find another job .. bummer!
The BR is only navigable for barge traffic for about thirty miles, the banks on both sides of the river have numerous navigation markers as per salt water shipping, whereas the upriver traffic steers toward different markers than the downriver side.
I have watched a few tow boat vids, and have not seen any channel markers or any other sort of navigation aids at all .. wonder why :)
There are navigation lights and buoys all up and down the rivers.
You make that look so easy!
How do you make those tight turns? Do you let the current steer you or do you use the tug's engines?
+Martin Mack a little of both sometimes. I have a few videos up describing a "flank".
Thanks, cap. I just discovered you on youtube and subscribed to your channel. Really interesting. You do a great job videoing the life of a tugboat captain.
You on the boat captain? What boat?
At time of this comment, I’m on the Mabel C Ethridge
@@marktwained Roger on that captain. I’m on the Jinx P Smith
yea that's my run Warren paving to new Orleans miss Audrey Dean assistance few our barges till we get down to Cario
Charles has a nice spot there.
Good job! There are plans to to replace the Smithland Bridge. Hope to begin in 2017.
Wow! Ever crashed?
Oh yes. Any seasoned wheelman has.
I don’t trust a wheelman that says he hasn’t. Either he is lying, or just doesn’t have much experience.
SO, Da boss lives up on the Ohio Eh.??
Somehow that does not seem proper to me, he should be liven in
A place like Baa’Ton-Rouge or the likes....!! 🤷🏻♂️