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Show In 1921 lie was selected ( 207 -9007 ) by the government to handle their boats on a survey ( through throtigh ) Cataract . . ( Oauyon Oaliyon ) beginning at Greenriver , Utah , and down to Lees Ferry . The first trip started September eighteenth , 1911 . They had two boats of the ( Gallo Gallo- Gallo ) ¬ way type , sixteen feet four inches ( in iii ) length , flat bottomed , decks at either end and a hatch covering the top . ( R 764 . ) Nearly all provisions or photograph equipment were carried under the decks and there were two air chambers in either end of the boat , under the decks , with an open compartment in the center for a single oarsman . They had a ( four-foot fourfoot ) beam and would draw when empty not over four and , , ( one-half onehalf ) inches . When loaded up to 1,200 pounds it would draw eight inches in the center . The bow was two inches higher than the stern with about ( ten-inch teninch ) rocker from bow to stern . The rocker allows the boat to be turned very quickly . It is in that shape that by pushing on one oar and ( pulling pulliug ) on the other you can turn the boat very quickly at an angle in the current . If the boat is ( flat-bottomed flatbottomed ) , it is very difficult to turn in a swift current because it wants to keep its course . If it ' S is a keel boat , it is even worse . ( R . 764-765 . They had lived there at the canyon nine years ( be- be ) fore they ( made inade ) the canyon trip and knew of two parties that had gone through . He heard reports of the trip of ( Eussell Russell ) R . Monette . This is the ( same s-alue salue ) trip Bert Loper started on but did not come |
