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Show ( don't dont ) recall whether or not 25 we lined our boat . It was a prospecting and trapping trip to Lees Ferry . When you are traveling with a row boat , especially upstream , on any river that I am familiar with , it is much easier in certain stretches to get out and tow the boat than to row . ( R . 1140-1143 , Vol . 6 . ) Because none of the other members of the Eddy party had had any prior experience with boats or with the river , we encountered quite a bit more trouble than otherwise would have been encountered on the early ( por- por ) tion of the journey . ( R . 1145 , Vol . 6 . ) Virgil Baldwin testified : I have operated three small boats and one large boat on the Colorado River . One boat was 27 feet long , 5 feet wide , and drew 10 inches of water with ordinary load ; it had a 6 cylinder automobile engine . Another boat was 20 feet long , 4 feet wide , with a draft of 6 or 8 inches of water and was powered with a Ford motor . Another boat , called the Black boat , was 18 feet long , ( 3V- 3V ) > feet wide , and drew ( "10 -10 ) inches of water . The big boat was 75 feet long , 14 feet wide , and equipped with an automobile engine . It had an ( 8-foot 8foot ) paddle wheel that was 12 feet across and contained twelve paddles . At the rear that boat probably drew 18 inches of water and when loaded its draft would be two or three inches greater . My first experience on the Colorado River with these boats began in February , 1925 , although I had formerly taken a trip or two for pleasure in an Evinrude boat . ( R . 1155-61 , Vol . 6 . ) In 1925 ( I 1 ) made 80 or 90 trips with the ( big- big big ) boat ; in 1926 , about that many more ; during 1929 ( I 1 ) probably made 25 or 30 trips , and other trips were made in 1927 and 1928 . There were probably 150 or 200 trips all told . . ( R . 1163-4 , Vol . 6 . ) We started in March , 1925 , and ran steadily for five months , with occasional trips from that time on during that year . Next year we made trips during most of the months of the year every few days . In 1927 and 1928 there ( weren't werent ) so many trips . In 1926 we made trips during each month of the year . ( R . 1164 , Vol . 6 . ) Our load would average between 12 and 15 tons during a part of this period . ( R . 1165 , Vol . 6 . ) We ( did did' did ) not always find the deep water and its location would change in the course of three or four days , especially if we were not running . Every change in the stream flow caused a rearrangement of the sand . ( R . 1166 , Vol . 6 . ) We had more trouble in ( operat operat- operat ) ing the boaF at low water . ( R . 1167 , Vol . 6 . ) ( Ordinarily Ordhiarily ) if we ran on to a bar going upstream we could back off |