Great content. I give you a lot of credit for home schooling your kids. When they are older, they will have such a huge advantage and great stories! I'm 59 - I wish I would have home schooled my kids. For Sure - in today's reality, I would have home schooled them to protect them
The tow you passed above the Coffeville lock looked like he had 8 loaded hooper barges. We call those regulation barges and are between 195 to 200 ft long and 35 foot wide. The barge alone weights in between 432 to 732 tons each ( 864,000 pounds plus ) with out the weight of the product in the barge which can range up to about 1800 tons. It’s a lot of weight to move around the narrow bends of the river South Bound. We don’t make a lot of speed because of this. On the larger western rivers, Ohio, lower miss, upper ms, we can make better speeds south bound. When I am able to retire from being a tow boat Captain, doing the great loop is something I am really looking forward to. Thanks for sharing the video. Be safe out there. Be watchful once you get to mobile. The amount of tow and ship traffic has been increasing and it has become a very busy port.
Thank you so much for the detailed insight! We found the tows on the rivers fascinating. We have another viewer who is a retired tow captain who is doing the loop this year. I'm sure it's a totally different river experience! Thanks for watching and commenting!
Great video. Terrific visual description of how a fairly typical day unfolds on the Tenn Tom. I thought the Howard tow you passed seemed minor league until you got past it and I saw it was pushing a block of three barges across. A massive tow. Really interesting to see how everyone spreads out during "home school" and after school is over. Another example of how crucial and valuable your hydraulic stern platform and comfortable dinghy are when you launched the dinghy effortlessly for a short trick or treat outing. Your quick and easy dinghy launch will be wonderful when you anchor out in places like the Keys and Bahamas. Thanks for the video. Excellent camera angles also.
Great video, doing my research to do the loop and this was great to show what to expect on a lock, Thanks for sharing. BTW you touched on the insurance aspect of the adventure, can you please dive more into that?
Check out the AGLCA podcast. Kim Russo frequently has an insurance broker on to discuss the state of yacht insurance and give tips. That’s the best resource we’ve found.
their remark in the video was related to the date restrictions that insurers place on when you can have your boat in the Gulf or Atlantic due to prime Hurricane Season.
oK let me explain you Will not save gas going slow the only difference is TIME a Boat will go X distance on a Tank of Fuel fuel is measured by Gallons per Hour as is a Airplane but a airplane cant idle and fly so anyway if you go 5 mph and a distance of 200 miles lets say thats a tank of fuel it will take you 40 hours or you can go WOT let say 20 mph cover the same distance use the same amount of fuel but in 10 hours instead of 40 I have tried and tested this on many different size boats its the same formula bigger boat more fuel but the amount of fuel per mile is always the same.
Thanks for the comment. Our boat at least doesn’t burn fuel linearly. Particularly when our turbos kick in it starts guzzling. I’d be curious what others experience is.
Thank you for another enjoyable and interesting video.
Thanks! It’s a good look into loop life.
Great content. I give you a lot of credit for home schooling your kids. When they are older, they will have such a huge advantage and great stories! I'm 59 - I wish I would have home schooled my kids. For Sure - in today's reality, I would have home schooled them to protect them
Thank you so much for the comment. Homeschool has certainly been a blessing for our family…
The tow you passed above the Coffeville lock looked like he had 8 loaded hooper barges. We call those regulation barges and are between 195 to 200 ft long and 35 foot wide. The barge alone weights in between 432 to 732 tons each ( 864,000 pounds plus ) with out the weight of the product in the barge which can range up to about 1800 tons. It’s a lot of weight to move around the narrow bends of the river South Bound. We don’t make a lot of speed because of this. On the larger western rivers, Ohio, lower miss, upper ms, we can make better speeds south bound. When I am able to retire from being a tow boat Captain, doing the great loop is something I am really looking forward to. Thanks for sharing the video. Be safe out there. Be watchful once you get to mobile. The amount of tow and ship traffic has been increasing and it has become a very busy port.
Thank you so much for the detailed insight! We found the tows on the rivers fascinating. We have another viewer who is a retired tow captain who is doing the loop this year. I'm sure it's a totally different river experience! Thanks for watching and commenting!
Thanks for the day video! It is nicely informative on the locks and tows!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you for sharing your experience. It looks like a lot of fun.
Thanks for watching!
Neat video! Thanks for sharing. The kiddos are growing.
Thanks! Yes they are!
Great video. Terrific visual description of how a fairly typical day unfolds on the Tenn Tom.
I thought the Howard tow you passed seemed minor league until you got past it and I saw it was pushing a block of three barges across. A massive tow.
Really interesting to see how everyone spreads out during "home school" and after school is over.
Another example of how crucial and valuable your hydraulic stern platform and comfortable dinghy are when you launched the dinghy effortlessly for a short trick or treat outing. Your quick and easy dinghy launch will be wonderful when you anchor out in places like the Keys and Bahamas.
Thanks for the video. Excellent camera angles also.
Thanks! Yes, we’ve passed some big toes for sure. And yes, that swim platform really allows us to use the tender often.
Nice work guys! Looks like fun.
It is! Thanks for watching!
Have to say that Stich really added to the video! ❤😊
Thanks! Glad we captured it in this video. It doesn’t happen every lock!
Love that mug!.. We enjoy your videos and hope to start the loop next year.
Awesome! The mug makes my son laugh so I bought it. Brings a smile to my face.
Thanks for sharing your adventures, love the videos.
Thanks so much!
Love to watch your adventures. Thanks for sharing.
You are welcome! Thanks for watching!
We will be heading that way soon! Waiting for the locks to be open and in a later group going through.
You will have a great time on the rivers (at least we did). ❤️
Great video!! I love watching your adventures!! Be Safe, and have fun 😃😃😃😃
Thank you!
Great video
Thanks!
Good to see your kids doing hime school. It's just about a necessity these days.
Thanks!
Nice episode.
Is that your usual closing music? that was great for Halloween Night! ;) along with the flames to the Happy Hour Outro. Nice touch
Not our normal but worked perfectly for Halloween! Thanks for watching (and noticing the details)!
Great video, doing my research to do the loop and this was great to show what to expect on a lock, Thanks for sharing. BTW you touched on the insurance aspect of the adventure, can you please dive more into that?
Check out the AGLCA podcast. Kim Russo frequently has an insurance broker on to discuss the state of yacht insurance and give tips. That’s the best resource we’ve found.
their remark in the video was related to the date restrictions that insurers place on when you can have your boat in the Gulf or Atlantic due to prime Hurricane Season.
Beautiful boat want to do this with our 1990 harbor master 520 coastal
Thanks! Do it! That’s an awesome boat!
It seems to me that bow and stern may have swapped positions! Don’t mess with the mojo on the last lock. 😂
It’s true. But Halloween called for different positions. Mojo wasn’t impacted. 😀
Would be nice to see where you’re going? And whats ahead of you?
Yep!
What were you turning every 20s or so. Around the 7:00 mark? Just curious
Autopilot. Adjusting the steering by 1-2degrees here or there.
Good to see you going slow, not sure why anyone would rush doing the loop.
It baffles us too but some people do! 🤷
@@onFIREfamily It's about the journey. Just like the song you had from river sam. I downloaded that one.
Awesome!
Cruising the TENN-TOM is a big change to spending time going to college on the frozen tundra in Moscow, eh?
Totally! 😂
Small boat, big tow, windy river. Ain’t that the truth
Great what you hear on the radio!
WOULD LIKE TO KNOW TOTAL FUEL BILL
We’re on track for about $17k total in diesel for our year. If we keep to 8mph, we get 1.8mpg.
@@onFIREfamily THANK YOU
Tenn-TOm ???
Yes!
Love the content and talk, why can't you show what you are talking about?
We try to get better every video. Thanks for the feedback. Hope you’ll
stick around for our latest stuff…
oK let me explain you Will not save gas going slow the only difference is TIME a Boat will go X distance on a Tank of Fuel fuel is measured by Gallons per Hour as is a Airplane but a airplane cant idle and fly so anyway if you go 5 mph and a distance of 200 miles lets say thats a tank of fuel it will take you 40 hours or you can go WOT let say 20 mph cover the same distance use the same amount of fuel but in 10 hours instead of 40 I have tried and tested this on many different size boats its the same formula bigger boat more fuel but the amount of fuel per mile is always the same.
Thanks for the comment. Our boat at least doesn’t burn fuel linearly. Particularly when our turbos kick in it starts guzzling. I’d be curious what others experience is.
@@onFIREfamilyYour experience is normal. Every boat I have every owned had much better range at slower speeds. Great video!
The young lady appears to need glasses.
Totally.
Gosh so much rather see the river and traffic than your faces no offense
Us too (I guess). 🙂