Opened 2013
Main still smells like diesel if a tow passed at dawn.
Launch Gate began because Rhea Voss was tired of La Crosse players buying a brochure angle and then dumping balls into the Pettibone bank.
The first draft stick was leftover from a Corps season on the upper pool. The first sill was pine painted with river marks. The charter has not changed: match first, hold second, radar never.
We still will not time a putter. The chamber times launch windows. Bluff air still dumps the pool while the trunk stays shut overnight. That is the whole story, reprinted every barge season.