Adventure Bound

I had the pleasure of meeting these guys today that are taking a once in a lifetime adventure on a homemade raft made from recycled materials. Suzuki loaned them a 25hp engine and they banged up their prop pretty bad. They called me and I so happened to have one in stock. They came over and bought it and explained what they were doing. They left St Paul, MN., and are headed to the Gulf on their recycled raft.

Kinda long video, but check it out. You can find them on Facebook by searching Recycled Mississippi.
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https://www.facebook.com/recycledmis...7045579086135/

Pretty neat

Pretty cool. They came through Cape Girardeau, MO the other day.

That's the kinda thing I dreamed about as a youngun :scratchhead and still kinda appeals to me now that I'm a grown youngun.

Tom Sawyer all over again!That's cool!

Good story, but im one to tell you, them Suzuki props ain't worth a flip! Hope they bought a stainless!


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No aluminum prop is worth much. The price warns you of that. Lmao

That's pretty cool. If it was me, I would have gave them the prop.

what percent of them jugs contain beer ? :popcorn

I met a guy and a girl in a CANOE, on the river..headed to the south...Dog was in the best shape..

A friend has floated the Mississippi and the Yukon rivers in a kayak. He got dropped one day at Black Rock . Called 10 days later from Russelville. One thing to float downriver another to paddle upstream.

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what percent of them jugs contain beer ? :popcorn

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ALL of em started out full. [emoji23][emoji23]

I met some guys several years back in the Bay Springs lock. They had put a pontoon in at Memphis and motored down the Mississippi, across the Intracoastal to Mobile and had come back up the TennTom. Someone was picking them up at Pickwick.

It's an interesting journey. I guess for some, it's the equivalent to climbing Mt. Everest. Waaaay more skeeters on the river tho. [emoji4]

When I was in my teens, me and a couple of my buddies built a raft and floated from Money MS on the Tallahatchie River all the way down to Vicksburg on the Yazoo. It was a long trip with lots of skeeters........

I'd rather have an aluminum prop that aint worth a flip absorb the damage and get ruined than have a stainless prop that stands up to the damage and my lower unit get ruined.

A guy was floating the Mississippi on a kayak a year or so ago and decided to make a stop in Memphis. Beached the yak under a bridge and walked into town for supplies and when he returned the kayak, like anything else in Memphis that is not nailed down, was long gone. I think one of the local outdoor outfitters raised money to get him a new one.

This one I will use if I ever do that . We took a 50 mile ride down the Tennessee river last Sat . It will motor !Attachment 245534

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This one I will use if I ever do that . We took a 50 mile ride down the Tennessee river last Sat . It will motor !Attachment 245534

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Where's the trolling motor? [emoji4]

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This one I will use if I ever do that . We took a 50 mile ride down the Tennessee river last Sat . It will motor !Attachment 245534

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And how big is the live well?

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