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| Cruising Guide from Lake Michigan to Kentucky Lake: The Heartland Rivers Route | 
 enlarge | Author: Rick Rhodes
Publisher: Pelican Publishing Company
Category: Book
List Price: $32.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (3 reviews)
Sales Rank: 179794
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 204
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 9 x 8 x 0.6
ISBN: 1565549953
Dewey Decimal Number: 797
EAN: 9781565549951
ASIN: 1565549953
Publication Date: February 2002
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Product Description
Covering over 800 miles of navigable inland rivers from Lake Michigan to Kentucky Lake, this book guides cruisers through America's heartland. In eleven regional chapters, Capt. Rick Rhodes explores the entire navigable sections of the Chicago, Calumet, Des Plaines, and Illinois rivers, as well as parts of the Mississippi, Ohio, Cumberland, and Tennessee. Topics specific to inland cruising, such as negotiating floods safely and sharing rivers with commercial traffic, are addressed here. Also, by featuring numerous historical anecdotes and other river lore, the book gives insight into the region's past along with current restaurant and entertainment options. The book contains up-to-date and thoroughly researched information about the area, including 91 marinas, 53 fuel locations (including gas and diesel), and over 170 bridges.
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 Excellent cruising guide August 27, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Rick Rhodes' book takes you on a cruise of the great rivers with all of the vital information needed to transit them safely. He provides marina names and facts about their facilities that you need on a trip of this nature. We will have it on our chart table when we go for our river trip.
 Don't waste your time August 21, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
My husband & I wanted to run the IL. river from Grafton to Liverpool in our boat. So we bought this book. Before we received it, we put our boat in at Liverpool, mile 128 & went down to mile 97.5 Brownsville. The book doesn't mention anything about the Marina in Havana where you can get gas & eat. It doesn't mention Bath at all where they have a bar on the river & you can get food & drinks. It says you can get gas in Brownsville, but you can't! They have food & thats it! Those are enough mistakes for us to decide to send the book back. It cannot be reliable. Unless you want to get stuck out on the river without gas, I would not buy this book!
very useful March 23, 2006
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Although I do not have a boat, I saw this book at a library and it has what I would consider very useful information, such as maps, distances, channels and phone numbers for bridge tenders, where to dock your boat, what's available when you dock, amount of turbulence in the locks, height of bridges in the up and down positions, and a whole lot more. It is written as a downstream narrative.
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