Cruising Guide from Lake Michigan to Kentucky Lake: The Heartland Rivers Route [Paperback]

Captain Rick Rhodes (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 31, 2002

The guide to part of the Great Loop includes navigable sections of the Chicago, Calumet, Des Plaines, and Illinois rivers.

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About the Author

Capt. Rick Rhodes' expertise as a sailor is strengthened by his love of travel in general. By the time he was twenty-two, he had visited all forty-eight contiguous states, mostly by motorcycle. Later, he served with the Peace Corps in Ecuador. From 1981 to 1999, Rhodes lived aboard his thirty-three-foot sailboat and his twenty-eight-foot powerboat. He is especially knowledgeable about river cruising, having held a U.S. Coast Guard Master License for inland waters since 1986. Rhodes is also the author of Cruising Guide from Lake Michigan to Kentucky Lake: The Heartland Rivers Route, which covers an important segment of the Great Loop.

Product Details

• Paperback: 208 pages
• Publisher: Pelican Publishing (January 31, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1565549953
• ISBN-13: 978-1565549951
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 8 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,459,568 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Don't waste your time, August 21, 2007

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Mitch - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cruising Guide from Lake Michigan to Kentucky Lake: The Heartland Rivers Route (Paperback)

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!

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars very useful, March 22, 2006

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Laughing Elvis (Lockport, IL United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cruising Guide from Lake Michigan to Kentucky Lake: The Heartland Rivers Route (Paperback)

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.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent cruising guide, August 27, 2007

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Elizabeth A. Ostman (Mettawa, il) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cruising Guide from Lake Michigan to Kentucky Lake: The Heartland Rivers Route (Paperback)

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.