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CHAMBER 08

LAUNCH GATE

MAIN ST · LA CROSSE

POOL: MATCHED · GATE: MITER

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Launch Gate La Crosse, WI

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.