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Subject: TWL: Re: Tenn-Tom and Tennessee River
From: Ben Owen (n7lbw@XXX.XXX)
Date: Sat Aug 03 2002 - 09:37:49 EDT
Rich
I appreciate your reliance on e-charts but, in general, most are like
the e-pilot books, they have not been updated.
I use the paper Corps of Engineers books and, at first I felt cheated
that very little information was presented. By the time I finshed at Dog
River, I appreciated the lack of detail because it can change with a
flood or low water. I have found red buoys four feet from the west bank,
probably dragged by a tow. many of the mileposts missing and my five foot
draft boat dragging bottom in the middle of the channel when the book
stated "Dredged to nine feet depth and 200 feet width.
Gar'y advice was good to watch the river, you are going to drag,
particularly in the lower TomBigbee. Dredging is not done nearly as
often and those I saw working were a joke, there were so many leaks in
the spoil pipe that it was all going back in the river and none going up
on the spoil pits. You can get a general direction for turns but any
other information from your e-charts but nothing else can be trusted. It
can give you a fals sense of security there just as it would at inlets
all along the coast. Bottoms and bars change too rapidly.
Watch the River, you'll be safer and scenry like nowhere else in the
world
Ben Owen
MV Meteora
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