Anybody know about summer sailing on the Mississippi River?
How are the winds on the lower part, say below Kansas City?
Any sailing clubs along the route?


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William R. Watt wrote:

Anybody know about summer sailing on the Mississippi River?
How are the winds on the lower part, say below Kansas City?
Any sailing clubs along the route?

IMHO, far TOO much commercial barge traffic to even consider sailing,
especially on the lower part.

Some of those barge lash ups can be humongous.

HTH

Lew

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Anybody know about summer sailing on the Mississippi River?
How are the winds on the lower part, say below Kansas City?
Any sailing clubs along the route?


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Note that Kansas City is on the Big Muddy or Missouri as its shown on maps.
Also, especially in the spring very high currents in one direction;
downstream.

Fred

On 12 Feb 2005 13:48:58 GMT, (William R.
Watt) wrote:


Anybody know about summer sailing on the Mississippi River?
How are the winds on the lower part, say below Kansas City?
Any sailing clubs along the route?

The Mississipi does not run past Kansas City.


Ironhorse, HSB#96, SENS BS
2001 Ultraclassic with Sidecar
96 Custom bucket of bolts (gone but not forgotten)

Ditto on the currents and barges. I motored my sailboat almost all the way down
from
Illinois to the Gulf. Besides the two previously mentioned problems, you can add
the
tricky winds that seem to be channeled to follow the rivers course. Also, you may
not
have good maneuverability to dodge the occasional logs and debris floating by.

Sherwin D.

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Anybody know about summer sailing on the Mississippi River?
How are the winds on the lower part, say below Kansas City?
Any sailing clubs along the route?

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"William R. Watt" wrote in message
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Anybody know about summer sailing on the Mississippi River?
How are the winds on the lower part, say below Kansas City?
Any sailing clubs along the route?

I sail the upper Mississippi and have a great time.
Barges and hot shot fishing boats are a headache.
If you have a shallow draft, back waters are nice to explore, but be careful
for stumps.
Lake Pepin is a very popular sailing lake, south of Minneapolis.




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appologies for the error in geography. the cruise was part of a boat
design and cruise planning competition at www.duckworksmagazine.com, from
Fort Benton on the Missouri to New Orleans. the judges dismissed the
sailing entries because they considered the wind on the lower Mississippi
not suitable. I was unaware of that and interested in finding out more
about it.

I've read Steven Ladd's "Three Years in a Twelve Foot Boat" in which he
spent part of that time sailing and rowing the same course as the contest.
He describes the current, 10 foot barge train wakes, and lack of
facilities (about a decade ago). Because of the space limitations in the
book which describes a much longer cruise his details are sparce.

I assume then that there are not many sailing clubs along the lower
Mississippi. We have 5 sailing clubs here on the Ottawa River in the city
alone and sail from break up to freeze up.

Thanks for the info.


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On 12 Feb 2005 13:48:58 GMT, (William R.
Watt) wrote:


Anybody know about summer sailing on the Mississippi River?
How are the winds on the lower part, say below Kansas City?
Any sailing clubs along the route?

It's nearly 25 years old now, but the best book on this route I've
read is "Old Glory", by Jonathan Raban.
R.

On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 22:47:05 -0500, rhys wrote:

On 12 Feb 2005 13:48:58 GMT, (William R.
Watt) wrote:


Anybody know about summer sailing on the Mississippi River?
How are the winds on the lower part, say below Kansas City?
Any sailing clubs along the route?

It's nearly 25 years old now, but the best book on this route I've
read is "Old Glory", by Jonathan Raban.
R.

A terrific book indeed, but nothing about sailing. He used a 15-ft
aluminum runabout.



Rodney Myrvaagnes J36 Gjo/a


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__ Peter Ustinov as Karlheinz Stckhausen

William R. Watt wrote:
Anybody know about summer sailing on the Mississippi River?
How are the winds on the lower part, say below Kansas City?

I THINK you meant to say St. Louis...KC is a couple hundred miles
west...the Mississippi River doesn't go anywhere near it.

That said, Alton Lake--on the river near St. Louis--was pretty decent
small boat sailing when I was in college.



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