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Title: Just figured out to post on the forum again
Post by: supergluek5 on September 17, 2021, 02:19:33 AM

 It's been along time since I posted here.  Always been checking the great builds everyone posts.  as the title says just got it figured out how to post again with all the changes made on the hosting sites.  I'll be more active now ( time permitting). I have several builds to add.

Title: Re: Just figured out to post on the forum again
Post by: john2 on September 17, 2021, 07:12:48 AM

 :)  Glad you are back, Captain Mike.

Title: Re: Just figured out to post on the forum again
Post by: Maineboy on September 27, 2021, 09:02:13 PM

I am glad you made it back Capt Mike. I come from the seafaring town of Deer Isle, ME and respect all those who ever made a living on the water. My grandpa went to sea at the age of ten, in 1910, as a cabin boy in a square rigged sailing ship. He worked his way up to Chief Mate before he was done. One of my uncles captained large ocean going vessels for 30 yrs. All I did was to go lobster fishing so my career was not as stellar as my predecessors but I was happy with it.  BTW What river is that in the photo? 

What I have seen of your models so far shows some great work. Can't wait to see more. Keep them coming.

Maineboy

Title: Re: Just figured out to post on the forum again
Post by: David Bogard on September 28, 2021, 01:27:24 AM

I just snagged one MB so I don't know what river it was on. Captain Mike can thread the needle with those barges!

Title: Re: Just figured out to post on the forum again
Post by: Maineboy on September 28, 2021, 07:05:11 AM

Ever since I was a kid I have always thought that navigating a vessel on a major river has it's own hazards beyond what navigating on open oceans have.  Adding strings of loaded barges to that equation just complicates all of that. Those damnable bridges are just one of them. Reading Mark Twain is where I first learned of how tricky those currents can be and how a good river man has to be able to "read" his river.

MB

Title: Re: Just figured out to post on the forum again
Post by: john2 on September 28, 2021, 07:29:40 PM

 :)  I think Mike works mostly on the Tennessee River across Northern Alabama, but he can tell us for sure.

Title: Re: Just figured out to post on the forum again
Post by: supergluek5 on October 02, 2021, 11:05:35 AM

Well Gentleman,

I used to work mainly on the Tenn. like John said . Now I'm working a run which goes from Cape Giradeau, Mo. on the upper Mississippi to Nashville, Tn. on the Cumberland River.   To get to the Cumberland  I have make turn and enter the Ohio River at Cairo, Ill.  Then go up the Ohio  to the Cumberland and enter it at Smithland Ky.

Mike
Supergluek5

Title: Re: Just figured out to post on the forum again
Post by: john2 on October 02, 2021, 12:04:22 PM

 :)  I'll check all that on my maps.