|
~~~
A WEBSITE FOR THE BOATING COMMUNITY OF THE
MISSISSIPPI, ILLINOIS AND
MISSOURI RIVERS
|
|
|
|
|
|
~~~
A WEBSITE FOR THE BOATING COMMUNITY OF THE
MISSISSIPPI, ILLINOIS AND
MISSOURI RIVERS
|
|
|
|
|
|
You Might Be A River Boater If : ~ Your wife says "you love this boat more than me". ~ Your first wife said the same thing. ~ Your second wife said the same thing. ~ Your third wife said the same thing...........
Lloyd Bollinger Sunkist III Yacht Club of St. Louis |
|
|
|
|
|
Thurst-day Thursday ....28 June..2007 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
“Foggy Sunday Morn”
Hi Bill,
|
|
|
|
|
|
~~^~~^~~^~~^~~^~~^~~^~~^~~^~~^~~ |
|
|
|
|
|
~~^~~^~~^~~^~~^~~^~~^~~^~~^~~^~~ |
|
|
|
|
|
Click here to read the news article in the on-line Alton Telegraph.
Click
here to read the news article in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers St.
Louis District website.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Temporary river closure on the Illinois River from Mile 116 to Mile 120 due to a downed power line across the channel.
Click here to read the ITCS Memo #2556
|
|
|
|
|
|
Click here for more information on the Mississippi River Commission website. A link to their website has been added in the left hand column of this page. |
|
|
|
|
|
This issue contains a couple of interesting articles:
The Lewis and Clark Water Trail on the Missouri River stretches from the Iowa boarder all the way to the Mississippi River. Go to www.missouririverwatertrail.org for more information on planning day trips or long voyages on the river in the footsteps of Lewis and Clark.
Protecting Missouri's Waters The zebra mussel was discovered in the Lake of the Ozarks last year ...and "Boaters are critical to the control efforts". The article contains useful tip for the boater to help prevent the spread of this invasive species.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Part Time Cook Wanted–All Shifts. Bar & Grill Featuring Daily Special
|
|
|
|
|
|
Click
here to go to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Louis District
website........ to the read the news article. (Scroll down the page)
|
|
|
|
|
|
He decided that he could wait no longer help and cut off two of his fingertips in order to free himself. Minutes later his future son-in-law arrived with help and tools !
Click here to read the news story on 5ksdk.com
|
|
|
|
|
|
Experienced Marine Mechanic
Dan’s Boats is hiring an experienced Marine Mechanic. Top Pay, Health Insurance, No Weekends, Yearly Training with the Manufacturers. Would service new and newer boats powered with Volvo and some Mercruisers. Dan’s Boats has a great team of boat enthusiasts and is looking to add a good technician who cares about the people and their boats!
Please contact Dan at 636-970-3267 or come on by the showroom! |
|
|
|
|
|
Bill, Would you post this on your website as a reminder. |
|
|
|
|
|
Wednessssssssday ....27 June..2007 |
|
|
|
|
|
“Who needs enemies when you have friends”
Riverbill,
|
|
|
|
|
|
~~^~~^~~^~~^~~^~~^~~^~~^~~^~~^~~ |
|
|
|
|
|
Do you recognize this one ? It ended up as a RiverBill's header picture earlier this year. ~~^~~^~~^~~^~~^~~^~~^~~^~~^~~^~~ |
|
|
|
|
|
Click
here to read this weeks edition of Tow Talkin |
|
|
|
|
|
Greenway Network's Race For The Rivers Date: 08/25/07 For more information Go to ..........http://www.greenwaynetwork.org/events.php?content_id=158
|
|
|
|
|
|
The Boat at the RiverBend, the floating entertainment complex on the Alton, IL riverfront, opened it's doors for business.
Click here to read the news article about the opening from the the archives of on-line Alton Telegraph. |
|
|
|
|
|
The park is located on the Missouri River side of the levee and extends from the Blanchette Landing boat access to the Bales Area in DuSable Park. Click here to read more about the park in the on-line St. Charles Journal.
Might be a Good Place To Get Away From It All Relax and Watch The River Flow. |
|
|
|
|
|
Experienced Marine Mechanic
Dan’s Boats is hiring an experienced Marine Mechanic. Top Pay, Health Insurance, No Weekends, Yearly Training with the Manufacturers. Would service new and newer boats powered with Volvo and some Mercruisers. Dan’s Boats has a great team of boat enthusiasts and is looking to add a good technician who cares about the people and their boats!
Please contact Dan at 636-970-3267 or come on by the showroom! |
|
|
|
|
|
Click here to read the ITCS Memo #2554
Repairs to the main lock chamber at Melvin Price Lock and Dam have been completed. The lock was reopened to navigation at 2PM 25 June 2007.
|
|
|
|
|
|
RiverBill says...Let floodplains be floodplains !
|
|
|
|
|
|
Part Time Cook Wanted–All Shifts. Bar & Grill Featuring Daily Special
|
|
|
|
|
|
Bill, Would you post this on your website as a reminder. |
|
|
|
|
|
Tuesday ....26 June..2007 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
CLICK ON PICTURE TO ENLARGE
|
|
|
Grafton Towboat Festival
Bill,
|
|
|
|
|
|
Click here for the news article about the Grafton Towboat Festival on the STLtoday.com website |
|
|
|
|
|
~~^~~^~~^~~^~~^~~^~~^~~^~~^~~^~~ |
|
|
|
|
|
Kinder's new deck all decorated and decked out !
|
|
|
Jill, Katie Kruze and Amanda
|
|
|
The KSHE 95 van
|
|
|
Click here for more party pictures ! ~~^~~^~~^~~^~~^~~^~~^~~^~~^~~^~~ |
|
|
|
|
|
Contact Laura at laura@dansboats.com or 636-970-3267. This is 100 miles up the Mississippi to Quincy , IL . Dan & I are the commodores this year and we have some fun things planned for all those that participate!
This trip is open to any boater who wants to join!
Laura Hamilton |
|
|
|
|
|
CLICK ON PICTURE TO ENLARGE
|
|
|
Hi Bill, This is BM (Best Man), I am sending this pic of the mystery wedding couple that MOH (Matron of Honor) sent you last week.
It was a great time, as always, on the river.
Thanks, Capt. Mike (BM) |
|
|
|
|
|
The Ministry on the River was established in
1998 and covers an area of the United States that stretches from St. Louis to New Orleans, Pittsburgh to Cairo,
Illinois, and from Houston across the Gulf of Mexico. |
|
|
|
|
|
Click here to read more about the theft on STLtoday.com |
|
|
|
|
|
Click here to read the complete story in STLtoday.com |
|
|
|
|
|
Bash on The Beach - July 14th - Naples Illinois - 65.5 mile marker BYOB - Food Vendor - Bikini Contest - Limbo Contest - DJ Boat Parade at sunset. Bring a tent and spend the night |
|
|
|
|
|
Experienced Marine Mechanic
Dan’s Boats is hiring an experienced Marine Mechanic. Top Pay, Health Insurance, No Weekends, Yearly Training with the Manufacturers. Would service new and newer boats powered with Volvo and some Mercruisers. Dan’s Boats has a great team of boat enthusiasts and is looking to add a good technician who cares about the people and their boats!
Please contact Dan at 636-970-3267 or come on by the showroom! |
|
|
|
|
|
Upper Ohio River near Ravenswood, W. Va
Bill;
What was this guy doing out on the river at 2 a.m. in a shut out fog with two children on board? The fog was so thick that all of the towboats were tied up. The towboat involved here was shuttling two barges between company docks a few miles apart. It appears the towboat pilot did everything he was supposed. Another newspaper article in the Charleston, W. Va., paper said the pilot blew his whistle like he was supposed to, but the pleasure boater steered right towards the whistle sound. Appears he had no idea whatsoever why the pilot blew the whistle. Another case for requiring licenses to operate pleasure boats.
Click here to read the news story on the Parkersburg News And Sentinel website. Click here to read the news story on Dayton Daily News website. |
|
|
|
|
|
First Coast News reported that a black lab
named Charlie jumped into his owner's car through an open window and somehow knocked the vehicle into
gear, letting it roll down the driveway and into the Pend Oreille
River .
Click here to read the news story on First Coast News out of Jacksonville Florida. |
|
|
|
|
|
Part Time Cook Wanted–All Shifts. Bar & Grill Featuring Daily Special
|
|
|
|
|
|
Bill, Would you post this on your website as a reminder. |
|
|
|
|
|
Monday ....25 June..2007 |
|
|
|
|
|
River Surfing
Hi Bill,
|
|
|
|
|
|
~~^~~^~~^~~^~~^~~^~~^~~^~~^~~^~~ |
|
|
Click on picture to enlarge
|
|
|
~~^~~^~~^~~^~~^~~^~~^~~^~~^~~^~~ |
|
|
|
|
|
Bill, Would you post this on your website as a reminder. |
|
|
|
|
|
Click here to read more about the festival in the on-line Alton Telegraph |
|
|
|
|
|
Will stop serving food at 8 PM for the fireworks show. |
|
|
|
|
|
Part Time Cook Wanted–All Shifts. Bar & Grill Featuring Daily Special
|
|
|
|
|
|
Click here for the Mississippi River and scroll down to your favorite fishing area. Click here for the Illinois River and scroll down to your favorite fishing area. For the complete report go to http://www.ifishillinois.org |
|
|
|
|
|
June 22, 1884 in River History The riverboat Montana, the largest stern-wheel steamboat to ever travel the Missouri River, sank across from St. Charles after striking the pier of the railroad bridge. She was a stern-wheeler with a wooden hull built in Pennsylvania in 1879. About 180 feet of the riverboat's hull is still intact today, lying underwater on the St. Louis Side of the Missouri River. Parts of the sunken vessel still surface from time to time when the river level on the Missouri River gets real low. The bow was broken off and has not been located.
Click here for information about the systematic survey and excavation of the wreck that took place in the year 2000 from the St. Charles Steamboat Project website. Click here to read the story about the Montana in National Geographic. Click here for the story in the 2005 news article in USA Today
June 23, 1939 in River History The United States Coast Guard Auxiliary was founded in 1939 by an Act of Congress as the U.S. Coast Guard Reserve. A volunteer force of men and women created to assist the Coast Guard and the recreational boating public. Re-designated as the Auxiliary in 1941 Click here to read more about the United States Coast Guard Auxiliary on the PRWeb.....Press Release NEWSWIRE web site.
June 25, 1906 In River History U.S. Congress passed bill authorizing construction of MacArthur Bridge spanning the Mississippi River at St. Louis. Click here to read more about the Mac Author Bridge on the Historic Bridges of The United States website
|
|
|
|
|
|
According to the PBS wesite...... The United States ended at the Mississippi River in 1801 and most Americans lived within 50 miles of the Atlantic Ocean at that time.
Click here to go to the PBS website and read about the film and Lewis and Clark's journey. |
|
|
|
|
|
FRI, SAT, SUN ....22, 23, 24 June..2007 Welcome To The 1st Weekend of Summer ! |
|
|
|
|
|
CLICK ON PICTURE TO ENLARGE
|
|
|
River Dawg Elvis Hi River Bill....
He lovessssssss the river n boating
and loves playing the sand! Cathy
Kleeschulte
|
|
|
|
|
|
CLICK ON PICTURE TO ENLARGE
|
|
|
River Dawgs Mickey and Minnie Mouse
Hi River Bill.... Joe Foust
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
CLICK ON PICTURE TO ENLARGE
|
|
|
The Chocolate River
John wrote::
Hi Bill,
Love your site and visit it every day. We enjoy pool 26 but also boat on the Kaskaskia at New Athens or Evansville, IL. (Close to home) Here are a few pics of my boys having fun on what they call the "chocolate river", they love it.
RiverBill says....I have spent some time boating and fishing on the Kaskaskia River myself when I was a young man growing up in that general area.. Thanks for sending in the pictures John ! |
|
|
|
|
|
~~^~~^~~^~~^~~^~~^~~^~~^~~^~~^~~ |
|
|
Click on picture to enlarge
|
|
|
~~^~~^~~^~~^~~^~~^~~^~~^~~^~~^~~ |
|
|
Click on picture to enlarge
|
|
|
~~^~~^~~^~~^~~^~~^~~^~~^~~^~~^~~ |
|
|
|
|
|
~~^~~^~~^~~^~~^~~^~~^~~^~~^~~^~~ |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Bill, Would you post this on your website as a reminder. |
~~~ RiverBill's Archives~~~
Our
River Pictures and e-mail of the Day ........ are from Blue
Marlin
