Ep:3 The Great Loop on a Shanty Boat | "Mississippi River Towns" | Time out of Mind 

Ep:2 here. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-N17RrjqxBG4.htmlsi=XaJ8zweBUdWuWmbg

I was working at the Prairie Island Nuclear Plant north of Red Wing when you motored by. We keep our boat at the Lake City Marina and are very familiar with Lake Pepin. Glad you enjoyed our local area. BTW when you mentioned that the plant was "gassing" what you were seeing was steam from the cooling towers that remove the waste heat from the reactors. We have two nuclear reactors here that produce over 100 megawatts (that's 100 MILLION watts) of electricity, all 100% carbon free. Have a great trip!

Lake City used to have a sizable industry making buttons out of the freshwater shellfish. It's most famous, of course, for being where waterskiing was invented.

I just found your channel and I can’t stop watching. You’re living the dream! …those curls and pushups are inspiring (I’m 48)and I got a got a good laugh, too.

Thats why the Autopilot is my number 1 must have on Long Trawler trips, but thats the great thing about boats, different styles - shapes for everyone. Always love videos on any River.

Love watching your videos! Watch at least one a day until I catch up with your current videos. I can relate to your lifestyle, being I lived on a houseboat for 10 years and had 2 sources of transportation. My truck and my boat and I used them equally. Many times, it was easier to go to the marina for simple groceries and fuel then to go to town in the truck. Keep them coming.....

Just found your channel, super thrilled and looking forward for your great loop videos. I, for one, would like like to see longer videos, showing more detail in both the sites along the trip and everyday types of things of just living on a shanty boat. What you may consider 'boring' is fresh and exciting for a lot of us. Best to you and Wavey.

If I wasn't 20 your senior I would go in a minute. But I do believe in Jesus Christ and heaven and hell. Love watching your adventures ❤

Grumpy Old Men was mostly filmed on the East Side of Saint Paul. It was a few blocks from where I grew up so we used to watch them filming when I was in high school. It was near Lake Phalen.

The further south you go, the more winter becomes summer! With an inside helm and a stove, you're golden!

I'm a retired lock and damn operator. To keep off the lock walls while the chamber is filling or emptying. Tie the bow to a floating mooring bit and Idle in reverse. Keep a pole handy just in case.

23:24 You should do this when you get back from from the loop, it would be a very important video!

5:37-6:03---pretty funny

It is amazing how they can maintain the locks draw bridges and free ferry son our water ways , give them time and they’ll start charging you for each use. A lot of water way city’s only allow you to anchor on a paid mooring ball. It’s the changing time’s glad you’re getting to do this for us. Always happy er on a hook than tied to the bank.

Man crossing Mobile Bay was scary!

Very enjoyable viewing. A bit like being there on the boat looking out a the river. Great to see you enjoying your freedom.

Great video 👍

Hello from the quiet cool Ozarks Brenton! Another video of value! Hope your well and enjoying your day! What a great adventure start! Enjoy riding along with you and checking out all the history and little towns! Excited to see your channel growing! tight lines and bent poles!

Lake City is where the Ingalls crossed the lake to head west in The Little House in the Big Woods. I love it.

TREATS??!!! Thanks for a rocking my world - again!

I love your channel. I live overseas, and watching this brings a tear to my eye as I recall traveling around the Great Lakes with my grandfather on his sailboat decades ago. The music is perfect too.

It is pretty awesome to see your subscriber numbers rising. Speaking of your movie watching. Doing reactions on your other channel could be cool. 14:23 Now that is a decoration I would be proud to have in my yard. I think we camped at a COE campground in or very near Alma in August. Speaking of fishing, I think there are tons of catfish in the waters you are anchoring in. Throwing out a line when you're anchored with catfish bait might pay off.

Stop in Bellevue Iowa if you have time can beach the boat at Off Shore Bar and Grill (for free, they even have sand anchors to tie to. Small town grocery, mom & pop coffee shop and a brewery. Really nice town.

Matt sent me. Love the content! 😀

Love it. Best shanty trip iv seen so far and you just started!. Thank you brother/barge beagle. Its getting rainy and cold up here in da UP. I think you will be keeping just ahead of the cold but you may have some heavy rain coming. Be safe have fun and keep inspiring the rest of us who keep talking about it and not doing it.

I'm excited about your adventure. Safe travels. Yall have fun.

Brenton, this was the best episode ever! The Church was beautiful and Wabasha was cool, I loved that movie. I worry about Wavey, is she as clumsy as my Cooper-beagle?. He would be overboard in 5 minutes wo a gate across those gaurd-rail openings.....Can't wait for the next episode! I'm heading to bring the Nomad home Tuesday, winter is coming!

Cool trip. Look forward to new videos all the time. See you in Sebastian 🌴

Great episode 👏. Don't forget to pet your Beagle!( I have 2 of those "Treat Fiends")

great video, I'm from Alma WI.

Understood. Singlehanding the sailboat, autopilot is a game changer.

Awesome series Brenton.. the lock system is pretty cool, also it's amazing that it's free .. so far , anyways 😊

Any issues with big waves bringing water inside the boat? ...Love the relaxing inside of the boat.

Hello Mr River..if you don't mind I'll float along with you and the little rabbit hound..I like the video and the whole thing about traveling on the big river has been a life long dream for me.. thanks for the ride along 🤝

Awesome series Brenton, thanks a lot!

I grew up in New England on a boatyard. I’ve owned many sail and power boats in my life. I had dreams of doing something like this in a hard bottom inflatable around 18 to 20 feet. Nice thing about that is you can pull in almost anywhere 😊. But it seems like the shanty is right good for it as well, little Mor comfort.

Wavey Treats!!

good job! your getting better and better at your editing!!

In a year or so, you might wanna check out Lake City, to La Crosse Wisconsin again by road. Winona is nice to Visit, it has the headquarters of Watkins Products, and they have a museum with all past and present products. There is the lakeview Drive in, but it's closed during the winter. Sugarloaf is one of the few registered mountains in the State of Minnesota. It's right off Hwy 61. La Crosse Wi/La Crescent MN sell apple's big time, In fact a lot of the Carmel apples you'll see even in the Upper peninsula I think are grown there. My mom and her best friend used to drive down there from Minneapolis each fall, and buy loads of apples. She'd make all sorts of stuff with them. When I was a little kid 4or 5, my mom would read the little house on the prairie books to us. One of the original cabins they lived in was in on the Minnesota side of Lake Pepin. The cabin is maintained with historical facts. Tiny cabin I might had, not much bigger than your boat, but interesting to see how people lived back in the day. I used to think it was just a TV show, but no, those people were real.

I always enjoy your videos.... my dog loves and watches Wavey😂

Been watching your adventures for awhile now. Really enjoying them. I live in Port Byron, IL. Above L&D 14, across from LeClaire, IA. LeClaire is the home of Antique Archeology. Also, 2nd weekend in August we shut down boat traffic for 3 hrs and have a tug of war across the Mississippi. I'm hoping I can at least see you as you float by. Oh ya gas is cheaper in Iowa. Lol. Godspeed on your adventure. Also you will float by a nuclear power plant just north of Cordova

Great series. You need some kinda outdoor grass rug for beagle to do his business on. Tie a rope or 2 onto it and you can dunk it in the river to clean it.

Lake City Hmong...fishing for carp. Rough fish, no limit.

Spot on! Concerning the locks and all trade up and down this amazing river.

it is nice to sit on the front deck in a lawn chair and just putter down the lake. i see they have steering systems that have a remote control to steer from on deck . i see martin is leaving in his sailboat any time now.👍👍carry on around the bend lol

A little behind on catching up, but enjoying every min! Keep moving forward and enjoy every bit.

This channel was recommended to me with the first video of this trip. Subscribed immediately and I'm now going back thru this boats playlist. Always had a dream of doing this trip on the cheap. Not sure it will ever be a reality though. It always annoys me to hear someone tell me they know what I'm thinking but I do understand the things you say. Enjoy the trip!

Don’t tie up to the wall in a lock.. if you forget to untie as the water drops the line will tighten and pop the cleat or break the line

Are u coming all the way down the Mississippi, I leave near Greenville Ms. Just curious if ur going to be coming this way

Rented a houseboat there in Alma this past June. We had a really nice and fun vacation. Seeing a lot of the same sights you are showing on your visit

loved it. very chill. thanx. wow, those locks are pretty incredible! also the massive barges you've been yielding to.

Seeet video. Love seeing the adventures

Hi from Germany . Since they showed the adventures of Tom sayer ans Huckleberry Finn in the german television around 55 years ago l m addicted to water and boats . To me you have the perfect boat and companian . Very nice to follow. My dream journey but french canals or german rivers are also nice ✌️

Too sweet,thanks.

I be watching for you on the water when you get close I want to get video of you coming in.i am going to new Orleans this weekend but I be back in Florida before you get here.safe travels

These times that were living in make anyone wonder what is down the road for humanity. This helps show that even when times get tough the river will keep providing a source of life beit for commercial purposes or living off and on the river. Just imagine two hundred years ago on a flat bottom boat the wonders that were around every corner .How come you haven't purchased larger bumpers for the just in case moments. Excellent video kinda wished you would have explored the towns a little more but then again time waits for no one. Be careful and stay safe my friend God love ya.

I keep wondering how that shanty boat is going to handle the mighty Atlantic Ocean. I guess I will find out!

If you want an idea how it would be without the locks and dams read Mark Twain Life on the Mississippi. It was a different world. Now most of our power plants depend on barges of coal.

wish i was floating it thanks for the show.

AMAZING !!!! Thank you so , so much for another great video ❤

Brenton, your trip is flooding back the memories for me. From 95 to 98, the Coast Guard sent me to Keokuk, Iowa, where I was to assume the duties of Chief Engineer on the USCGC Scioto. It was I believe the summer of 96 that we had to fill in for that River Tender you passed outside the lock, the Wyaconda out of Dubuque, IA. Our normal area of responsibilities for maintaining the buoys and lights on the Mississippi ranged from Clarksville, MO to the South and Clinton, IA to the north. Alot of river miles. Tack on the Wyaconda's area of responsibility north of Clinton all the way to the end of naviagation at St Anthony's Falls lock in the Twin Cities. That's alot of river miles and buoys! But what a trip! What sights to see. When I came aboard Scioto, I did not consider the deep american history contained within that river and the wonderful small towns alongside the Mississippi River. I love to dive into any books about a topic I'm interested in and the Mississippi has alot of great contemporary books for anyone interested in your voyage to consider: Jonathan Raban's "Old Glory'; Mark Twain's "Life On The Mississippi", "Mississippi Solo" by Eddy L Harris and "Up On The River" by John Madson. Madson devotes a chapter on the Armistice Day Storm of 1940, where a vicious cold front collided with a warm front over the great lakes and the upper mississippi. 85 duck hunters alone on the Mississippi lost their lives when the weather dropped some 50-60 degrees to near zero in less than 24 hours. So, She can be a fickle river. Always keep a good weather eye, as well as a good eye for those barges. Especially this time of the year as they are moving the grain to the south. There always seemed to be a mad rush in barge traffic, especially leading up to the closure of the Upper Miss Locks on 1 December (with global warming what it is these days, not sure if that plays out the way it did in my time on the Mississippi. In my time, 1 December was lock down time for the locks, to prepare for the river being iced over until March........ In my CG career, I was fortunate and lucky enough to have been stationed on the Rivers Delaware, Hudson and Mississippi. Been down the Delaware Bay and the Chesapeake. Been off the coast of Cape Hatteras in it's stormiest. But nothing, nothing, touched my heart and soul like the Mississippi did. I still hope to return there one day, with my own boat, to float upon those quiet waters again. Your videos convey that feeling I felt, some near 30 years on.....perfectly. Safe travels to you and Wavey, my friend.

Never thought about a auto pilot but mite be a good idea for shanty boat

Hello from Wabasha, would have been fun to see you go by

Weather changing down here in Oquawka Brenton . Rainy and temp dropping. 34 Saturday morning and 40s for next week or so 😊just letting you know 😉

Very cool. My and one of his best friends canoed from source to sea in 2019. They made it in 42 days. Yes they hauled ass. That was the year of flooding on the Mississippi. I dropped him off at source, met him in Memphis and picked him up at the end. Great adventure.

Great stuff right here!

What a journey and you will learn a lot more the further you go. Barges may be a bother but they run the river and have the right of way. Enjoy

Great video .. keep them coming !!

Awesome video first i messed up and started at Ep 3 but i'm guessing no big deal i'll catch Ep1 next. i'm a big fan of Harland Hubbard shantyboat adventure and of course Tom, Jim & Huckberry raft adventure as a kid . your shantyboat is Beautiful inside i'm anxious to see more of it and your beagle pup - Wavey what a excellent companion . i so want to do this it's been on my bucket list for years i've owned a ton of boats over the years and sailed but the shantyboat is just inspiring to me as i love the water and small town America .i'll be sure to follow your adventures .

Very nice. Enjoying your travels.

Good vid get:n better and better

This is the first of your videos that I have seen, and I was really surprised to see you using a shantyboat to do the great loop. I wonder how your boat handled in open ocean waters of the east coast? Very cool, certainly more comfortable that the small tugboat type rigs I have seen a lot of people use for the trip. Blue skies and tailwinds to you.

Such an awesome adventure

I wonder if you couldn’t find a nice location between locks, with plenty of mooring spots and easy access to supplies and spend a summer there.

It's been nice and warm here in north west Alabama. But it is supposed to turn colder next week.

Pay Britain I like your channel. Let me know when you're close to prairie de chen

This is absolutely excellent. I have traversed the Erie Canal and Champlain but never "floated" which would have been far easier, I think. Love simplicity of a shanty boat (my boats have been older sailboats) Slow and steady wins. Although far less draft sure helps. Well done and its great that you share your thoughts along the way.

I don't know if you heard that...I just did a 1000. I like to break a mental sweat too

Awesome adventure Brenton b'y! Loves the shanty boat, seems nice and cozy. Lake City and Wabasha are interesting towns. They sort of remind me of Grand Falls - Windsor here in NFLD.

cool little towns

NICE JOURNEY

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Cheap way to cover scooter is BQ grill cover front Walmart

Glad you made it to Slipperys! You must of passed us in Red Wing. Have safe travels!

What can i possibly add lap of luxury my friend

😊 Show some more enjoyed the video

Hello! You're getting close to my stretch of the river, Caseville Wis on down to lock and dam 11. Bagley and Glen Haven WI have town docks. Hope to catch you when you come by.

New sub here what a life

the smell is from an ethanol plant......the people you saw are indeed Hmong

I'm curious about statistics, have you figured out your fuel usage / mileage etc... gallons per hour, or MPG etc. What power settings are you using? What is your average speed through the water at those power settings etc... I'm trying to calculate an hourly expense estimate. I have access to a 3 cyl Yanmar marine diesel, which I can run into a tunnel drive system to protect the prop, or I can go with the std, outboard. So I'm just looking for real world experiences to help me decide which way to go. I love these videos. As a young man I had the dream of traveling the nations inland waterways and documenting every little river town. This is just to cool.

It’s very relaxing to watch your videos!! A man and his dog!! My dog’s name is Cooper and he is always within a few feet of me!! People don’t realize how dangerous Mobile Bay can be because it is so shallow!! Safe travels!! Larry Moons, Mobile

The river must have been much different when it was free flowing before the dams were built.

You should have one of those water carts with wheels on it for your gasolin it would be better way to get your gasolin back to the boat and it holds 30 gallons....

In future EP. Tell us about your navigation and how you take on water.

Better hurry, snow flurries through that area in a couple of days.

Love the old Brick Buildings! Where were YOU in 1892?

Great episode, I dream about making the Great Loop. My son and used to talk about it a lot, but he has a new girlfriend and seems to be distracted. I am working on improving my health so maybe I could get in good condition and do the loop with my little dog.

Now,you've made this trip before. When you finally round Florida and stat coming up the entercoastal Waterway,how well do pontoon houseboats do?

I don't know if this will help you or if your boat is capable of it but next time you get in them waves that is coming over the bow (or nose as you call it..ha) it might help to raise that motor up and give it a lot of gas to get that bow up and keep it from being overtaken by them waves.

“ I’ve laid more pipe than Wabasha Plumbing “ Burgess Meredith-Grumpy Old Men