|
"To exit the Great Lake with a mast up there are only two possible points. One is the Illinois River in Chicago that flows to the Ohio River and then to the Tennessee / Tom Bigby canal or on to the Mississippi River."
Cannot get out of Chicago heading south with the mast up.
The route south from Chicago is the Chicago sanitary & ship canal to the Illinois river to the Mississippi river. Then upstream at the Ohio to the Tenn-Tom system. The lower Mississippi is very hostile to pleasure boats, hence the preference for the Tenn-Tom
|