Very much appreciate some advice on floating the Mississippi

[Ben Hatcher]

Thx for the the food for thought. I was at first thinking of a pontoon boat because of the platform style where it would be easy to set up for living and sleeping but... More research need I suspect.

Have you considered a houseboat? You might be able to buy one upriver and sell it in New Orleans. One popular boat reselling site in the US is boattrader.com.

[David Warkentin]

If you end up coming down the Tenn Tom stop and see me.

[Brian Ashton]

Have you considered a houseboat? You might be able to buy one upriver and sell it in New Orleans. One popular boat reselling site in the US is boattrader.com.

No I haven't but it's now something I'll investigate. Will have to see how they fair against large wakes from the barge and ship traffic

[Brian Ashton]

If you're not married to the Mississippi idea, consider the Tenn-Tom Waterway as a route to the ocean. Runs from Paducah, KY to Mobile, AL, and avoids the heavy commercial ship traffic of the Mississippi.

http://tenntom.org/

Also, Google "Great Loop Mississippi" if you haven't already. Lots of travel diaries of all sorts.

thx for that. have been doing a bit of reading on it and it sounds pretty good