| perchplucker |
| (member) |
| 07/27/07 05:37 PM |
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kayak vs. barge. barge wins. Missouri River
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Incident Type : Incident Date :
2 BOAT COLLISION
07/26/2007
Waterway : District : Incident Time :
MISSOURI RIVER 4 2:00:00 AM
Location : Town : County :
105 MM GASCONADE CITY GASCONADE
Summary :
A tug pushing a barge stacked two wide maneuvered around a bend at the 105 mm. A male and female subject were in a two seater kayak. When they rounded the same bend as the tug and barge they were unable to maneuver out of the way before the barge struck them and ejecting them from their kayak. The barge unable to come to a complete stop as the collison occured, ran over the two subjects. After being run over by the barge, the male and female subjects crawled out from underneath the barge sustaining no injury.
Boat(s) Involved Listing: Boat Number : 1
Boat Type : Damage Estimate :
Towing Vessel None
Boat Owner : Owner City/State :
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MAGNOLIA MARINE TRANSPORT COMPANY Jackson, MS
Operator Date of Birth : City/State :
Lybarger, Jessie 2/23/1942 De Witt, MO
Boat Number : 2
Boat Type : Damage Estimate :
Kayak - Yellow 24' Two Seater Unknown
Boat Owner : Owner City/State :
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Wayne Kocher Benicia, CA
Operator Date of Birth : City/State :
Kocher, Wayne 7/27/1937 Benicia, CA
Passenger Date of Birth : City/State :
Grove, Ann 6/12/1941 Benicia, CA
Wouldn't want to be going down the Missouri in kayak at night. I guess the noise of the tug pushing double wide barges and the big search lights wasn't a clue that there was something coming up the river.
They should have had more info before 75 people set out in kayaks from Kansas City to St. Louis and try to make it in 100 hours. 
Tugs have the right of way. They are lucky they could out from under the barge and didn't drown.
| H2ODOG |
| (the one who never tires) |
| 07/27/07 05:40 PM |
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Re: kayak vs. barge. barge wins. Missouri River
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Man a barge at 2 am light up the river with their 100 million candlewatt spotlights from a long damn way. Those two California, too stupid to get out of the way.....well you can't fix stupid.
| IIFID |
| (Bond....Timmy Bond) |
| 07/27/07 05:55 PM |
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Re: kayak vs. barge. barge wins. Missouri River
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I heard this morning that the winners of the race made it from KC to StL in 45 hours!
| Duckband |
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| 07/27/07 06:50 PM |
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Re: kayak vs. barge. barge wins. Missouri River
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Quote:
I heard this morning that the winners of the race made it from KC to StL in 45 hours!
In a Kayak
| 67Firebird |
| (Former political advocate) |
| 07/27/07 06:58 PM |
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Re: kayak vs. barge. barge wins. Missouri River
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It's kinda like Larry The Cable Guy talking about people getting hit by trains, and the two tracks should give ya an idea something may be goin' on in this area.
Same with big lights and loud engines; somethin' may be a-happenin' up that way.
| foots |
| (the exterminator) |
| 07/27/07 08:22 PM |
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Re: kayak vs. barge. barge wins. Missouri River
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Two observations. They be from California and dude was 70 forkin years old.
| HAUS |
| (member for now) |
| 07/27/07 08:34 PM |
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Re: kayak vs. barge. barge wins. Missouri River
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Well it makes sense now. Old dude had his Cialis kick in at the wrong time and he couldn't paddle around his enormous grandpa erection...
| Mac |
| (Birding Moderator) |
| 07/27/07 08:34 PM |
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Re: kayak vs. barge. barge wins. Missouri River
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Not familiar with that stretch of the riva...dunno if the bend was sharp or not...but I agree it would be hard not to recognize the apporach of a friggin' tug/barge.
Rule #1 -yield to chit bigger than yer rig.
Rule #2 - never tie to drifting debris.
Rule #3 Darwin's Natural Selection process is always in effect..
| DMac |
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| 07/27/07 08:41 PM |
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Re: kayak vs. barge. barge wins. Missouri River
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Nighttime floating
"Whut's that noise?" he said
Darwin rears
His ugly head
| Scout 1 |
| (New order Amish - not be confused with Meninite!) |
| 07/27/07 09:16 PM |
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Re: kayak vs. barge. barge wins. Missouri River
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Forty five hours!!!! What the hell, did they take a day off at Jeff City or what?
| spectr17 |
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| 07/31/07 03:25 AM |
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Re: kayak vs. barge. barge wins. Missouri River
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No barges out here in Kali-fornya, closest we got is them big destroyers that come out of San Diego bay that throw a hilacious wake. Lots of pilgrims play chicken with them.We were bowfishing one fine day this spring when some squareheads in canoes and kayaks decided they were gonna cross real close into our field of fire. It was bad timing as we had just found a big pod of carp and the slaughter was on.
One goof got about 20 yards off the pontoon bow when Westy harpooned a big fatty. I'm not sure if it was the arrow flight heading toward the canoe or the carp thrashing up a bloody froth but the lead canoe did a hasty course correction.
Blunts were invented to cure these type of folks.