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31/01/2008 3:41 am
Greetings From New Orleans ,
The M/V ( Motor Vessel ) Admiral Jackson , will be leaving the New Orleans area for her return trip to Nashville , Tenn. . The Admiral Jackson came down to the Bollinger ( Quick Repair ) shipyard in the Harvey Canal to undergo some minor repairs , some refurbishing and also to have her five year hull inspection made. My friends , Capt. Finley ( Friendly ) Frasier and Capt. Carey Lewis will be the two pilots on board with a very limited sleleton crew to man the vessel as she returns home to Nashville . At one point , I was scheduled to be one of the pilots but unfortunately with work and other scheduleing issues I had to bow out . What a GREAT trip that would have been !! We estimate that it will take five to seven days to return to Nashville , depending on river conditions and lock delays . I've been told that the Ohio is falling out and that the corps has raised the dam at Lock 52 on the Ohio , so no telling what time delays they will experience once they enter the Ohio .
Smoothe Sailing !
Ted Davisson
08/02/2008 4:57 am
Dear Ted, I assume that you are referring to the GENERAL JACKSON??? Never heard of an ADMIRAL Jackson! There is/was an ADMIRAL in STL, but she is now a confused and abused PRESIDENT. And the poor old PRESIDENT is somewhere...perhaps Over the Rainbow?
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11/02/2008 8:28 pm
My Mistake
I would like to apologize to one and all for my mistake for referring to the General Jackson as the Admiral Jackson . Regardless , it has recently come to my attention that the General Jackson's return trip home has been postponed due to Mardi Gras and some additional work that has been performed on the boat .
Smoothe Sailing !
Ted Davisson
Ted Davisson;9417 wrote: Greetings From New Orleans ,
The M/V ( Motor Vessel ) Admiral Jackson , will be leaving the New Orleans area for her return trip to Nashville , Tenn. . The Admiral Jackson came down to the Bollinger ( Quick Repair ) shipyard in the Harvey Canal to undergo some minor repairs , some refurbishing and also to have her five year hull inspection made. My friends , Capt. Finley ( Friendly ) Frasier and Capt. Carey Lewis will be the two pilots on board with a very limited sleleton crew to man the vessel as she returns home to Nashville . At one point , I was scheduled to be one of the pilots but unfortunately with work and other scheduleing issues I had to bow out . What a GREAT trip that would have been !! We estimate that it will take five to seven days to return to Nashville , depending on river conditions and lock delays . I've been told that the Ohio is falling out and that the corps has raised the dam at Lock 52 on the Ohio , so no telling what time delays they will experience once they enter the Ohio .
Smoothe Sailing !
Ted Davisson
13/02/2008 2:25 am
The General Jackson is a fairly nice boat, for this (Nashville) area at least. A friend of ours, who lives just up the road from us here in rural TN, is in New Orleans with the General Jackson. They left Nashville a LONG time ago and he was looking forward to returning in late Jan or early Feb, then I recently heard from his wife that the return-trip had been postponed for a while.
26/02/2008 5:32 am
An update on the General Jackson's progress...
After some equipment malfunctions and other slowdowns along the way, they're just about home (Nashville).
They're scheduled to come through where I am (Cheatham Lock and Dam, west of Nashville) at 4:00 AM Tuesday morning, February 26th, and they're scheduled to dock in Nashville at around noon.
The guy who I know, who works on the boat, has been away from home almost 2 months now!
26/02/2008 2:44 pm
John Hartford often told me that the GENERAL JACKSON would become the model for all excursion boats built after it, but I don't think that the design of the GENERAL showed up on any casino boats. It is a beautiful boat, and I see the GORDON C. GREENE within the design. Is my imagination working OT?
Incidently, the first steamboat that arrived at Nashville's front door was also named the GENERAL JACKSON.
26/02/2008 3:12 pm
No, Sam! I have often thought the same thing about the G.J.'s resemblence to the GORDON.
Most of the casino boats do not follow any sort of traditional or historic design, 'cause people don't care. I have also found that the general public's taste leaves something to be desired with those boats anyway. We used to have a cook that thought the CASINO QUEEN at East St. Louis was the most beautiful baot she'd ever seen, and she'd seen some mighty good-looking boats. Go figure.
26/02/2008 5:14 pm
Are Some Good'uns
While I agree that most of the gamlin' boats fit within your description of them, there were several, however, that had quality design features built into them. For example: Bernie Goldstein's "Lady Series": DIAMOND, EMERALD, and GOLDEN gals; New Orleans Paddlewheel's QUEEN OF NEW ORLEANS/FLAMINGO/ GV2; and Jumer's CASINO ROCK ISLAND looks like a floating wedding cake sculpted in steel. All of the aforementioned boats were built for, and by, "real rivermen" whose love for the river and an eye for as an authentic-looking-as-possible boat(s) shows in the final products.
The age of the Casino Boat will be over within two years at most (31 December 2009), but it has been a most interesting time (almost 20 years) that will be, when its finally over, no more that a spark that had its time, flared brightly, and flickered out.
27/02/2008 4:46 pm
Sam, what's so magical about 31 December 2009 and its relation to the casino boat industry?
29/02/2008 9:18 pm
Nothing at all "magical", it's the date the USCG has announced, in writing, that they will no longer inspect the casino boats. No inspections, no Certificates of Inspection, no marine jobs. Obsayo.