GL: Barges and Locks

[Wade Ehlen]

Ahoy All:

   I'm forwarding part of an email that I think could be of interest to Loopers.  It's from a friend who was staying in an RV park on the Okeechobee Waterway in Florida:
"...There was a bit of excitement on our last day - a big old metal barge being pushed through the locks by a tugboat got stuck at the entrance.The darn barge was too wide for the lock ! They turned the tug around and tried to pull it back out and they even opened the gates at both ends of the lock to try and flush it out, but without sucesses. Unfortunately we had to leave before they got it free, but they were talking about cutting some of the front of the barge off."

Wade Ehlen
Albin 36 Miss Happ
Docked in Brunswick GA