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Bellingham, WA. The parking is free in a side lot that is patrolled. People leave their truck & trailer there for the summer and head to Alaska. All the boating shops needed are in the area. It is less busy and less "business frenzied" atmosphere than Anacortes & especially Seattle. We...

Two Bears is continuing down river. Today, the last day in August we reached Muscatine, IA - River Mile 455. That's 390 miles done, 253 more to go. We are using our air conditioner for the first time since leaving St.Paul. At Guttenberg we were met by Paul and Joni Talsma, from the Jonie...

Two Bears has made it from St Paul down to Wabasha, MN. We were held up in Red Wing two days waiting out the cold front with winds 25 to 40 on Lake Pepin coming from the south which would have hit us on the nose. It would not have been a "good trip." So, Red Wing is a nice town and our timing...

We are in Red Wing, MN, heading down the Mississippi. We are thinking about you guys. Unfortunately, we can't be everywhere. Chuck & Penny

Two bears is heading down river. Departed Thursday from Watergate marina in St Paul. Will do 30 to 40 miles a day with lots of stops which should get us to Alton in time. Chuck

Two Bears will be launching in Minneapolis around the weekend of Aug 15/16 and after a few days in "town" will head down river to the Gathering. Schedule unplaned, unknown, erratic & changeable, but plan to arrive in Alton before the gathering. I'm thinking of flying back to Minneapolis to...

Casey & Mary, We trailer-ed east in 2012 and spent a month traveling east and attending a convention. We then spent the month of August on the Eire Canal. I knew academically it would be hot, but as a westerner who had never lived in the east/ or Midwest we were totally devastated by the heat/...

George & Carolyn, Stay snug & cool. Apparently you have your act together. I wonder some times how I let my life get so out of control that I've got this duty to perform before I can get loose. So here I sit in 105 degree temps wishing I was in Desolation Sound. Oh well, Just read "The...

Haven't previous gathering at Powell been later in September? Weather doesn't (usually) start to change until October - ( but who knows this year.) As quick as that schedule is, it doesn't leave much time for boating on Flaming George. Chuck

George, isn't it funny how life gets in the way of cruising plans?! :roll: We have about 10 days after FH and the American Memorial day is in the middle of that, so we might come north to the Gulf Islands to avoid those crowds but maybe we better wait until the 19th when VC day crowds will...

I've been enjoying the YouTube adds for the Aspen single engine multihull boats. The C90, or 28 footer has lots of nice features, is trailer-able (but not with a half ton PU), quite stable as it is a multihull, it gets the same mileage as my CD22, (3 mpg of diesel), but at $260,000 is a bit...

Thanks for the ideas and suggestions. This is looking better and better. At this point I'm thinking we will start down river from Minneapolis about Monday, Aug 24 which gives us 17 days to reach the gathering, which is about 40 miles per day. I suspect that there are some sections that will...

You might consider Tractor seats. I did a goggle and there are tons out there. Lot more demand for tractor seats than boat seats so the prices are lower. Chuck

George, I really enjoyed your photos in snugmug, but you need to the camera away from Mary. We'd much rather see photos of her than of you! Chuck

Well, Tex, you're given me a bit to think about. What about gas? Active Captain only shows gas at Memphis and Vicksburg. I really do not want to carry a bunch of five gallon gas cans. Chuck

Upper Mississippi River We hope to get away from home in Northern Idaho by the weekend of August 8, trailer to Minneapolis, launch there and boat down to the Mississippi River Gathering the weekend after Labor Day. Allowing time for driving, launching and getting organized we’d head down river...

I loved it. What a great introduction, and after visiting the site twice, I want to go back again. Now what we need is a video by Bill telling his tales and showing his slides. Chuck

This has been very interesting reading for me. After retirement in '98 we bought a pop-top camper and used it 2 or 3 months at a time for about 10 years. By then we had used it more than 400 nights and driven it 200,000 miles, many of the miles on dirt roads in Canada & the western US...

I have a 22 with the 90 Suzuki and with the two of us not too dainty people on board usually for two weeks or more we are usually heavily loaded. Two Bears sits well below the painted on water line. I don't get the speed performance at rpm suggested in places I've looked, but when I run the...

Cracker39 asked about Honda power for hull speed. I suspect that the two motors, both being modern computer controlled electronic ignition, get about the same efficiency/ economy. My setting of 1,900 -2,100 for hull speed in Two Bears is just from experience/ practice. If anything I may be...