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Old 05-10-2011, 02:37 PM   #7
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RE: Update on trawler purchase

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Bakeract wrote:
Thanks everyone! I'm very excited. I'll be getting her next weekend to bring over to this side of Florida. Going to cut through Lake Okeechobee. I need to check on the lock status and see how that looks nowadays. Hopefully they got some rain up there.

I'll have to double check on the bolt wire..it looked like a ground.
*Went through the Okeechobee May 1st and 2nd.* A little over 4' of water in the channel from the lake to Clewiston.* We got through by the hair of our chinny, chin, chin with about 1' to spare.* Watch the depth as it is coral rock bottom.* We found shallow water from about marker 6 to 10.* That is a pretty long stretch.* Check with the Corps of Engineers wesite for lake level and navigatable depths.* The Franklin and St. Lucie locks were on a 7-1-7 schedule.* The other locks were on demand.* Good luck.
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