thearteest
09-16-2011, 11:09 PM
I mean the things that few have ever or will ever do. Things that still float to the front of your brain and cause you to say, "Wow! I really got to do that!".
Here's mine. My dad was a Mississippi River tow boat master pilot. His boat was 210' long, her sister ship beating her by 2' to be the longest on the river at the time. She weighed 1103 tons and got her power from two enormous Wakasaw engines. Full tow loaded was 40. She could push more but it was harder to make the bends with a load that long.
Anyway, I spent many weekends and summers riding from New Orleans or Baton Rouge to Cairo, Ill and back down again. The full journey takes a month. My favorite thing was to sit in the wheelhouse on summer evenings and listen to all of the pilots talk and help coordinate this beautiful ballet with tons of steel on a pitch black river. It was amazing!
Here's mine. My dad was a Mississippi River tow boat master pilot. His boat was 210' long, her sister ship beating her by 2' to be the longest on the river at the time. She weighed 1103 tons and got her power from two enormous Wakasaw engines. Full tow loaded was 40. She could push more but it was harder to make the bends with a load that long.
Anyway, I spent many weekends and summers riding from New Orleans or Baton Rouge to Cairo, Ill and back down again. The full journey takes a month. My favorite thing was to sit in the wheelhouse on summer evenings and listen to all of the pilots talk and help coordinate this beautiful ballet with tons of steel on a pitch black river. It was amazing!