welcome to setting vessel Seeker it's uh 2 A.M and I'm up on anchor watch because there's
thunderstorms in the area so I'm editing video too and this video is about the Mississippi
we just entered the Mississippi and it is a record low so it's going to be a fun and
interesting trip down the Mississippi hope you enjoy the video
it's kind of the same thing as the magenta line down the middle right yeah the helm is
much different in response I noticed that too because of the Eddies and you have to
read ahead to find the edges because it will swing the bow on you or prevent your bowel
from turning responding to the direction you want to swing to there's our barge oh yeah
okay so now where are we we're going to meet here and I gotta get over he's coming up there
yeah you get a nice strain area to meet you Nathan Golding around now
yeah it has a lot more steering involved now maybe I'll tell them what your experience
is
yeah yeah oh well could you learn to steer a boat yeah he was working on Brawlers and
fishing and how much of your life have you spend doing that
where were you uh fishing uh Northwest Atlantic Grand banks in Newfoundland ocean shell Labrador
sea all those places that will kill you quickly when you fall in winter time yeah
just pulling you in in that case it will be hard to park right regardless yeah yeah this
is the first River experience this is the first Big River experience real River with
current yeah it's well and but it's wide I mean look how far away he's going to be for
us when he gets here oh yeah yeah
I say to the side he has no doubt which side I'm going to go down
bound vessel that's the choice yeah and then the other rule is I can't I really can't win
yeah 10 inch wins I'll give him that right off the bat that just looks really close to
me there's not much current yeah yeah you're right yeah yeah
well I do like how wide it is for me yeah
they're growing big down here don't they
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nine one nine two four barrel racing on the Mississippi River that is a green buoy we
got around that tightly so that we can give that barge over there plenty of room that
current is helping us a lot we are cruising those long days we were running back on the
Arkansas we do that out here we'll be a hundred miles down this River in a day
so is it scary being out of Mississippi yeah I get your heart going it'll be something
you get used to it's like anything else you know I bumped up barge today I bumped the
tow boat behind the barge uh but figured it all out only did a little paint scratching
to the boat so you know that's the way to make mistakes and you don't want to make a
mistake in front of one of these so you know we keep our nice distance so this is good
distance look at this look at that you're under the front of that thing so you know
you evaluate what is my possibility to damage here I just hit a barge sitting in a still
in a block man you avoid these things rollers coming out the back of that thing that is
an amazing amount of water yeah these are not your Arkansas river barges these things
are three times larger that engine
look at that point
peace
true story first time ever move Seeker oh yeah we are going up and down now this is
cool I was backing away from the dock at uh Tulsa Porter Catoosa and a barge had just
gone behind me and when the rudder got into his wake where he had passed by the river
was still moving with a current through it so I started I was backing out turning nicely
and all of a sudden I started turning the other way in his current so if you pay attention
to a lot more things out here currents are important we got Keels and the Deep Rudder
so we're not like a you know a flat bottom boat if we get near something like that it
pulls us we were made a nice turn there here's more coming up two more just another one do
you think this river system is not important to be found in the United States you're not
thinking about how many tons of goods are represented in just one of these now all of
these are going up north pick up grain in the northern states that's your food and they're
gonna have to run short coming back down they're not going to be able to load them full because
they'll touch bottles that means more trips more diesel for Less cargo higher prices
going north maybe even Tulsa
the other thing is fun is those guys are doing about two knots going up we're doing almost
eight sometimes close to nine going down just depends whether we're over in a current or
not
concrete tax dollars they work to try and keep this River where it is they will someday
fail at that and look at all that sand out there that's at least a quarter mile across
there's a lot of river that's missing all right we're slowing up we're gonna make a
turn and we're gonna anchor along that Shore with the trees further south and ask where
the Arkansas River actually comes out to meet the Mississippi and that'll probably be loaded
up with sand but because of the low water there is no little Bay there yeah there on
the map there's a bay there there is none now there's no Bay [Music]
we're good don't you I think I do so we probably have down there yeah so I'm not gonna get
to it what's your depth here
okay let's stall out here and we'll go ahead and launch and run it in tender is off the
scout water depth for anchoring
hear the sound of the anchor Dragon okay she's biting in now foreign
but
um you just keep bobbing around so we're just sincerely it sure looks pretty now this is
where the Arkansas actually runs into the Mississippi you know we went up the post canal
and into the Arkansas but this is the real thing the way they got us up here and there's
trees and a lot of current so it's kind of cool being on this end of it
okay
there he is you can close we have decided to run at night you know we gotta learn to
do it sooner or later Danger's just [ __ ] we got a little dayline practice in the freaking
anchor just would not bite you know we have the option of putting it up on the shore then
you gotta get off that Shore or you might get dragged off that Shore in the middle of
the night so yeah we're doing this we've done some of this we are almost at Greenville Mississippi
we need recipient why did we decide to just you didn't like Angry after we had our very
1am no it's not 1am yeah but it's going to be 1am before we get in there this is all
my fault no yeah but no but I I have to say yes to it and I said yesterday that it's been
good has it been real good yeah it's a nice barge traffic motion going stuff but it happens
real soon yeah you're gonna have to wait you know two hours three hours six hours what's
the biggest week
one I drove over into and I'm going to do that again so much fun you just gotta get
guys off a bow it's probably what like maybe six foot waves uh bigger no smaller yeah 35
and a half yeah listen when that valve goes up 12 feet it's nothing but stuff well yeah
but you get a it's just like that yeah you get a rhythm going in it
good time it's good time well we have to collect some water over the bow that'd be fun yeah
I had no idea that the the fun part of going down the Mississippi this guy is not turning
right surfing the the Wake we gotta get in the look at his life all right yeah
bottom had to bring up his engine to push hard he's got a tug he's coming out with and
I know he had Bob because uh yeah yeah we hit bottom right there too last night and
spent how many hours trying to get off last night um who knows how many hours it took
however I would say that like he's still pushing look at that the big commercial guys need
the big commercial pushers to get them out yeah we just got the wheelie the wheelie we
get past the empties here yeah you can yeah he's on bottom again in turning water this
guy over here he's on bottom too looking lean I know what that looks like I know what it
feels like too low river is more than a minor inconvenience Brandon tells me that operation
air is home is facing up the guys on the front of that tug tight steel cables into the barge
while we're out into the Mississippi somewhere and give her to another tow going up River
I don't know what's going on I think just making pass and building some up on the side
of the board you know might be catching that or maybe it's not an exchange maybe it just
takes two tucks to get one barge through this Harbor hey we got we got a lot further than
that and we did it with one little our own little Pusher yeah and by ourselves right
no help we're in further than he was yeah look how much little freeboard that Pusher
the one in the store they're doing the same they just sit there and this dude move the
sand from this spot to the spot we got stuck in they're putting your sand back that's what
they're doing yeah
wow you want to know why your food's gonna cost more fuel lines are about a inch wide
oh you got it you hear this turbo wind down look at that little free board this boat has
I'm doing the cables
so it is a handoff as well
that's got two engines thrust it up on the side closest to us that just swings him out
into
the river
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are we having a moment Rocky had a moment last night now is a movement on the deck finally
no you do we're not upset at you you did good you would have exploded if you hadn't done
that is their job for the day because Here Comes their next cyst look at the size of
these things up here all right and those poles sticking down the front those are depth Sounders
I bet they're watching them today and until it rains again pass those puppies in the middle
of the night all you can see four red lights or green lights one amber light Five Lights
you'd have to figure out what direction and orientation issue is coming at you well it's
awfully smaller at night than it does during the day no Tides no surf but that doesn't
mean we don't get waves sitting on this beach they look much smaller at night when they
have five lights on them they look bigger to me at night I think they look smaller like
I don't have any more room it's just a moving skyscraper laying down yep and her yeah the
dude wasn't even stop it what was the Remake I have adjusted your affiliate your bubble
it's not gay when you're underway
and I'm showing you the anchor spots into Vicksburg so here's Downstream okay then after
that you know there's no free there's no real great that's a bit of sand right there ought
to be a lot bigger at low water Robert here is making a provisioning run Matthew is not
a cooking stuff for tomorrow we're going to do a 100 mile run tomorrow laundry has been
done say hello Ryan has joined us and uh he's working on the Whaley's tie-ups every time
we do this we refine it but we want the uh waiting to be easily hip tied in like this
to the boat in case we have to use it in an emergency like for towing and other guys are
on into town now and and fuel we'll take on some gasoline today too of course check the
levels and everything foreign about 45 gallons of fuel but we'll add some more to the day
tank
we are in Greenville Mississippi and we got shored up and we sent the crew out for provisions
and I think they walk them away maybe Hunting Party returns big game
oh yes gasoline oh yeah the flesh is burning so good
I'd rather turn out of here because I mean actually your water is a little bit better
down here than it is on farther up but it sucks everywhere I bet yeah it'd be nice to
get some more water in here I'll make sure you usually we start getting a little bit
of sprinkles here and there but all right y'all got that unit one yeah go all stop on
their cap and make sure it stays where it's at right now look to make sure I just seen
the foot the foot notch in it I just shook my head and kept walking all right yeah go
check it because we might have to get creative like so I might have to get that like to figure
something to do with this one load on the outside and run a face wire and shackle pan
links or something to line across there and winch it across because I ain't getting on
that bank side to push it out Roger I'll get back there with you we're gonna walk back
there right now Lake Providence is what they're talking about there on the radio and it is
a bad area in this next video we get to run around there too along with all the others
so join us for that and thank you for joining us for this video it's about 4 A.M I've got
the decks washed off the water Tank's filled and not too eventful of a anchor watch so
y'all take care remember if you're out in your shop making stuff send us a picture what'd
you make today
yeah I bet my water tanks are full now and it's good to see in Mississippi getting some
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