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Show 6792 Wimmer- D 4781 plenty of water, it won't sink so bad. As you get closer to the ground it will sink it worse if you are pulling hard. Q Where you tie your scow ahead as you did in operating the Marguerite, does the fastening of the prow of the Margue-rite, the front and of the Marguerite to the scow, tend to keep the Marguerite itself more even, and does it have a tendency to prevent the stern of the Marguerite from sinking? A It does the same with the Marguerite as it does pushing the two boats up stream. That is what I wanted to tell the gentleman a while ago. In going over, there is always a place in a riffle that is just over the top that is the hardest place to get over. As your boat come up and it loses displacement, if you haven't got the bow loaded down or tied down some way, it throws the displacement on maybe two- thirds or half your boat; in getting over this, if you have a boat ahead of it it prevent that to a certain degree. Q In these trips that you have described with the Marguerite, the round trips to Moab, round trips to the junction , and in your short trips on the rivers with that boat, let me ask you to state what difficulties or obstruc-tions to your navigation of those rivers were encountered by you, if any? |