We met the Colonel
23-Jun-2021 Wednesday Billie Limaches Bicentennial Park free wall, Joliet IL to Mariners Marina, Seneca IL (31.1 nautical miles 35.8 statute miles)
41°18’01.8″N 88°37’05.3″W
41.300500, -88.618129
Elevation: 484 feet Elevation change: -54 feet
States (1): Illinois
Locks (2):
Mile 286.0, Brandon Road Lock
Mile 271.5, Dresden Lock & Dam
Along the Way
We called Brandon Road Lock before we left the Joliet’s Billie Limaches Bicentennial Park free wall. The lock said all is clear. Come on down.
The Mc Donough Str Bridge (16.5 ft) was really tight. Dale aimed between the low support beams to make it through. It would have been bye bye bimini if his aim was off.
Check out the guy in orange sitting on the back of the barge. After every couple of scoops he checked the markings on the barge to see how low it was sitting in the water.
This is our 3rd run on this section of the Illinois Water.
Brandon Road Lock
The city of Joliet is below the dike wall. 
Brandon Road Lock
We got to meet the Colonel at Brandon Road Lock.
Colonel Sattinger is the only military office supporting Illinois Waterway, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Rock Island District, about 900 people. He’s the guy who was in charge of the extensive lock repair closures last year, 2020.
Colonel Sattinger and the lock staff
I told the Colonel a joke so he told me a joke.
Do you know why Airborne training is only 3 weeks long?
Week 1 – separate men from boys
Week 2 – separate out the idiots
Week 3 – let the idiots jump
Always progress new bridge
starting to build on the west side 
dredging for foundation on the east side
boats 
chemical barge 
Mile 274 industrial area Wilmington IL 
Nice New style dolphins (white metal with pads) a couple of old ones 
Off the channel. It’s weird 
true house boats 
Fish zapping and counting team.
The Dresden Lock is 600 ft x110 ft with a lift ~22 ft. It takes 66,000 cubic feet of water (493,714 gallons of water) per foot of lift.
Dresden Lock 
vultures 
new doors put on last year during the shut down
Auto pilot is a great.
Woo Woo! Mariners Marina!
entrance 
yes dear... at the end 
yes dear... at the end
Oopsies. I forgot to take pictures of our friends.
Floccinaucinihilipilification
Illinois Waterway from Chicago to the Mississippi River. 8 locks
Ponder This
Why isn’t phonetic spelled that way?
Furthermore, Colonel is pronounced ˈkərnl. It took me a couple of tries to spell it correctly because I kept trying to put an ‘r’ in it.