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Show Record was a modern up- to date one. I don't think that that boat would make all of the rapids on the sections of the Colorado River that I have personally been on. 4950 In my judgment it would take a 20 horsepower motor to take a 24 foot boat with a load of a ton or more up the Colorado 4951 River as far as Hite. There would be no difficulty in going up any of those rapids in such a boat. A. L. Chaffin testified on cross examination as follows: I was born in 1885, so that the first boating experience that I had was 12 or 13 years old. The only difficulty I had on the Colorado River with sand bars was going up stream. I had no difficulty with san bars 4952 going down stream. I do not recall of any time when I had to get in the water to get off of sand bars. I have seen other people operate boats and I have seen them get in the water to get off of a sand bar but very few times. Those people were not in my party. In boats that I have been riding other members of the party have gotten out to assist the boat off 4953 a sand bar, but happened very few times. Occasionally you may be sailing up stream and taking the slow water and get into a place in the easy water and run on to a sand bar. Maybe some of us got out and helped push the boat off; but usually when that occurred we used a pole. I don't recall of us doing that; at any rate, it didn't happen very many times. Going down stream no boat or raft in which I was riding ever stuck on a sand bar, or on a rapid. Going up stream we may have run in and hit a rock in a rapid and had to push off, or something like that, and some member of the party would get out 4954 and help the boat off, but that happened infrequently. It happened occasionally on the Hanson Creek rapid. It never happened on the Trachyte rapids to my recollection; and never happened with me at the North Wash rapid. |