welcome to setting vessel Seeker we're anchored in Perdido Bay just off Pirates Cove Alabama
here and we have had a wonderful trip down the Mississippi and this is where it starts
to get a little busy just south of Baton Rouge down to Sunshine Bridge we start picking up
a lot of traffic enjoy the video [Music]
on the river has these Mooring buoys in them for the ships
that operation in the background there that's Cargill 80 of everything you eat has Cargill
in it girlfriend oh that's right she works at cargo yeah what's she do she's uh she works
in research and development at Cargill she's the plant supervisor pilot boats out Shamrock
Marine they do uh Services here I asked about docking there he said no you can't our Doc's
uh sitting on ground right now that is how a pilot goes to work
he's moving he's moving and he's moving
he's busy as we've seen it but everybody's going slow and most of us are talking to each
other we might get a lot of walking if you work on these barges amazing Grace how sweet
the song that says
Tracy sure I've got in gear this morning he's gonna pass Us by actually we're gonna let
him go by we can go faster than he but I think it's better to get behind one of these guys
and let them kind of clear traffic for you see how they handle the situation and Follow
the Leader enjoy the sun today because it's raining for tomorrow and I'm not going to
complain this River needs the water Rocky has not been good by finding his carpet he
hasn't figured out where he wants to poo yet today it was that forward hatch why not right
why not I've only seen these cranes on the deck but here you can see that is the bucket
he attaches to so he can reach down inside his hole and pick up the grain or whatever
he's carrying and move it over to a dock like that so he can unload himself yeah there's
something about bacon it just smells so wonderful
yeah this is the side note the dredge has an AIS and so does the little boat out on
his tail end [Music] we're from yeah chemical yeah Dow Chemical that's the Clean Water they're
putting back mountain spring water
car ferry we are calling vessel traffic services they put out notices to the Mariners and they
told us to give us give them a call I don't think they'll care about us it was so small
Shane this is Doug I'm aboard sailing vessel Seeker or recreational 74-foot vessel and
uh we're at your call-in point we're southbound at 205 we're just approaching anything we
should know yeah okay I just want to call and make sure some of his novices and all
this all right is that one up there yeah we're watching we're listening in on six seven for
traffic talking to them that way
all right yeah we're going down uh we plan to pull in just south of uh Sunshine Bridge
tonight Seeker yeah I was saying vessel Seeker SV Seeker okay [Music] all right thanks a
lot appreciate you bye
easy enough what'd they say yeah we're good River's open nothing to worry about
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forward slash shop pick up your T-shirt and I think they're closing the river in this
section because of uh it's so narrow they're having to stay really close to each other
going by so at night time they're closing it from seven to seven
not sure what they're doing out there but they sure got a lot of equipment to do it
Robert doing his daily reading and that is Shenandoah first one we're actually gonna
get to pass they're going slow enough we can come around them
no this is funny I'm traveling down with a bunch of Engineers and Military guys and we're
discussing different ways we could get that tanker to explode Homeland Security wants
to protect all these targets it's like only from somebody who's not really trying I feel
like I'm at home powered by Meth oh no methanol okay that must be something else maybe alcohol
oh this boat is American pharaoh and they're working their way down turns out the captain
on there knows about us and is offering to help us through the uh industrial canal in
uh New Orleans which is a mess unfortunately the schedule didn't work out so uh contacted
David Wiggins he lives down there he's gone through the canal several times we'll get
him to be our pilot but maybe next time
okay another mystery of navigation has been solved we were up in uh Baton Rouge and there's
this 142 called you know it's like gave us so we called 142.
we thought that was vessel trance at uh BTS vessel traffic traffic Services it wasn't
you know this pretty sounding girls the boys came back to us gave us all this information
it's like okay that's not vessel traffic Services it's 142.
why not the ship's name we know kind of what ship she's on figured it out this ship coming
up to us says pilot 27 27 so pilot 27 so it's a pilot's number see that that's on the boat
27 top of it afternoon no we're passing him on the two two whistles he says starboard
is starboard
and I'm sure we look like a Fleek compared to that
kind of pulled his bow on there and he's doing just what it should do is break down those
waves people talk about for sailing boats too but they're actually designed for a certain
speed that they're most effective at other speeds they don't do that much good and I
don't know we're looking at two barges with train each and maybe those are spuds they
drop in the front while we were stuck on the heart up in Tulsa I actually talked to Big
River shipbuilders they have a crane big A-frame crane about coming up picking us up off land
and driving us just a little bit outside the port and dropping us back in the water so
it would have cost me a lot of money but that would have been a way of doing it thank goodness
we got the insurance that was expensive enough there's a lot of barges along here but kneels
Downstream he scoped out a couple of these Mooring buoys oil is bacon just in front of
a set of barges so unused morning we're gonna grab it tonight talk to Brandon he says some
of them are government some are private and they're all unidentified so you know we're
going to do the first come first serve and hopefully not get anybody's way yeah we even
talked to vessel uh traffic Services they said yeah take it so we're gonna take it yeah
that's something I got to point out that's been very helpful is you know my little Toyota
truck is running down the river road with a crew member in it every day and Mark did
a lot of that and the other guys have meals on it today so they can go ahead of us because
it only takes like you know 45 minutes maybe an hour and a half to do by road but we're
going to take all 10 12 hours of day to get there on the water so they get ahead and they
say okay this side of the river Sandy bank here now you don't want to use that place
up there so Neil has found this Mooring Buoy for tonight it'll be a first so something
new is always good
cry well thanks for sending he says there's four in there
but it changed everything you got to hold it together
that was a tremendous amount of damage done to that pier and we asked uh Sean about it
he's the captain on American pharaoh and he sent us this video no he dragging down the
side of it I've seen off he's on it brother look at us on this list you see it rolling
it was a pretty simple mistake he was on the right Bank descending facing upstream and
he was at that chemical plant over there he pulled off the ball and made his 180 degree
turn to go underneath the bridge it just didn't get his turn made in time with the current
oh not coming back what he should have done is gone Upstream away he's done his turn and
then come back at the bridge from further Upstream but I'm sure that uh a lot of people
learned that lesson figure out that thing to work
[Music] there's Neil and there's our Mooring Buoy [Music] ing
click six nine yep lovely that's a governor thank you
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a which is that Loop comes off and we're gonna just throw it over the hook it's not gonna
be a good tie it'll keep the boat in position once that's done you guys can take up the
slack and then we'll take two more lines from here once it's all stabilized and go up to
a nighttime high for too long certain exam
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up close and personal with this work crew all right
well it's 67 feet right here he just pushed in to let him let that line loose they're
going somewhere else with it with it no maybe they just conquering and
they've done that earlier you would have made this maneuver a little easier but proved we
can do it the top quarters I like that there's my lightning arrestor and we're gonna mount
it up there that's uh grounded to the Savage and it's actually isolated from the gasket
in there so this ought to work just dandy all right Joel is back with us and he brought
a friend along he lives down here in Gonzales so it's nice having Crews spread across the
planet we run into them every once in a while and we have gumbo tonight thank you very much
Elliot from my Meridian passage figure out my asthma do my cross it's an underlying position
hopefully it crosses with all that stuff we have a chart plotter right in front of you
so it's called I know but this is the seat of the pants the way like [ __ ] Christopher
Columbus came across yeah I thought about this way I read it in one of my books is they
they took and covered it up so you couldn't see any of your electronic AIDS you sailed
for five days and see where you were yeah there's one guy making sure that they're not
going to run aground them well yeah what you need that right and then yeah that's cool
after five days yeah after shooting sightings and all that like where are you how far out
are you where the hell I'm saying yeah they're off by 11 miles but still 20 miles he hit
a coastline that's not terrible that's rather good yeah for five days running I think three
miles is pretty good that's rather good that'd be fun to do someday it would be [Music] [Applause]
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