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Show ( more -more more ) troubled by the current 678 , too much current against the ( banks banhs ) ; occasionally get out and lift the boat off of sand bars if we were ( stuck stuch ) . ( R . 2584 . ) On the trip upstream got out and push the boat off sand bars a great many times ; the two boats had been made into two . I should say both boats were ( on the sand bars a great many times , or hampered ( -by by ) other obstructions or where ( tlie the ) current was too swift to ( handle bandle ) them . ( R . 2584 . ) This change in ( the -the the ) boats was made about the ( tliird fbird ) day . ( R . 2585 . ) His impression is that the Utah line is about at Warm creek , somewhat below the Crossing of the . Fathers ; their change would have been made there a little below or a little above there , not a very great distance . Most of the section of the river in Utah was made with combined units ; were a better ( op- op ) erating organization by this arrangement than ( when -when when ) we were all barging ahead on our hit and miss . Now had Tom and Andy Wimmer at the only working motors , and both were good men with ( the -the the ) engines ; were able to concentrate efforts if the boat got in trouble ; had three ( men a-ien aien ) to work with it ' a man to row as hard as he could , or go overboard and tow from the bank , or tow from the water if that became necessary . It was an unwieldy thing but were getting fairly good ( lesults iesults ) . As a boat it was more difficult , but they concentrated three men on it ( ; - ) there was a unity of effort , and the advantage was from that rather than from increasing the length of the unit . A larger boat is normally much more unwieldy , of course , crossing a current . The |