A "Typical Day" on the Great Loop | Surviving the TENN-TOM | Tows, Locks, and Anchoring - Oh my!

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 for another enjoyable and interesting video.

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

Good to see your kids doing hime school. It's just about a necessity these days.

Thank you for sharing your experience. It looks like a lot of fun.

Neat video! Thanks for sharing. The kiddos are growing.

Have to say that Stich really added to the video! ❤😊

Thanks for the day video! It is nicely informative on the locks and tows!

Great video

Love to watch your adventures. Thanks for sharing.

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 for sharing your adventures, love the videos.

Nice work guys! Looks like fun.

Great video!! I love watching your adventures!! Be Safe, and have fun 😃😃😃😃

Love that mug!.. We enjoy your videos and hope to start the loop next year.

Cruising the TENN-TOM is a big change to spending time going to college on the frozen tundra in Moscow, eh?

We will be heading that way soon! Waiting for the locks to be open and in a later group going through.

Beautiful boat want to do this with our 1990 harbor master 520 coastal

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?

Small boat, big tow, windy river. Ain’t that the truth