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Do any of the TX member know whether the Brazos River Floodgates are operating or are the submerged ? I wonder if the River is up enough to run around them.

Paint is about done and will be splashing again soon.

It is apparent, after watching several of the news clips of our recently captured Naval Personnel, that the Navy is no longer using the USS Pueblo incident as a training tool. I did not witness any hand signs.

It would appear as though the Russian signal for collision avoidance with a fishing vessel works very well when other means fail. I wonder if we could get them to operate in gulf water for awhile.

Looks like TS Danny will be increasing in strength and heading towards the Bahamas and S. Fla. Half the tracks show it getting into the Gulf. Please stay alert.

A collision and fire took place at the ICW X Houston Ship Channel this a.m. Evidently two two barge tows were involved with one of the tows loosing power at or near the intersection. Both tows were pushing red flag barges. One with about a million gallons of Naptha caught fire. No evident...

I am reminded of Stevie Ray's "Texas Flood" today. I would advise against crossing the Brazos or Colorado Rivers in Texas today.

Ulysses will be departing Gulf Shores, Ala. for Key West then on to the Dominican Republic on Jan. 12, 2015. Will be single handling her and will take many pictures.

One of my pet peeves (I have enough to start a zoo) is the usage of "tug", "barge", "tow" and "towboat/pushboat". I would like to explain the usage of these terms as applied to the Gulf Coast Inland Waterways and Western Rivers. Tug- a typically model (pointy) bow boat used to assist ships to...

32' crab boat just capsized off Bodega Bay. Five on board one survivor no life jackets were worn.

Anyone on the upper Miss. between lock and dam 19 and 20 be on the look out for a lost crew member. Fell off of a tow in the upper pool of lock 19. They found his work vest.

Ran into these in Nicaragua last week. Thought that I would share.

I am tired of complaining to my T. V. and thought I would vent on here. In regard to the missing airplane, does anyone else believe that there is not a "Debris Field" in the ocean and that it should be referred to as Flotsam?

Saw a pic of my boat so I thought that I should join the forum.