We went looking for the Snyder; didn't see it. Didn't think to look for the LST-325 because we thought it was farther upstream than it was, so we didn't see it, either.
C'est la vie, or something like that.
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According to the LST website, it hasn't left Marietta yet. So hopefully it will make it down the river during daylight hours tomorrow.
As I learned when the LST-25 was going up the river a few weeks ago, the locator on the Web site can have a significant time lag. According to the Corps of Engineers' vessel locator, the LST-325 got out of the Robert C. Byrd Locks and Dam about 9 p.m. tonight, so it should be hitting the Greenup locks a few hours before dawn, and it might be at Portsmouth by sunrise.
The tracker
http://aprs.fi/?call=lst325&mt=roadmap&z=11&timerange=3600
can be quite inaccurate at times. If you look at the map, you should see closely spaced red dots with short green lines. If you see long green lines cutting through land it is not working well. The elapsed time since the last contact is displayed on the right side of the screen next to the zulu time in parenthesis.
Right now 19:30 Thursday evening it is working good and the ship is located on the Ohio Indiana border.
I chased it for a short while down the Ohio when it left Pittsburgh. The tracker was a great aid at first but then fooled me. You can read my experience here:
http://navfin.blogspot.com/2010/09/chasing-lst-325-down-ohio-river.html
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