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Show 7241 Blake- D 5221 soft, just being deposited in absolutely dead water, and by creating a current through the revolution of your propeller it sucked it out and gave you channel enough to get to shore in your boat, and have to back cut in the morning. Q From your experience, Mr. Blake, in operating your boat or boats during the high water season that you were on the river and made at least one trip that you spoke of, did you observe any change of channel at places where there was a projection out into the river, a point near a wash, or anything of that sort? A That is kind of hard to explain; I don't think the channel changes so much from high water itself as a projection will change the current, and the volume of water that strikes that projection will turn undoubtedly and follow in a straight course. Q Then there are points where the current changes during high water, but in your opinion the channel does not change? A I couldn't say the channel changed, because in low water it goes back anyway; but the current does change, no question about it. Q At such points? A Yes. Q You say you went there originally with the thought in mind of operating boats on the Green and Grand rivers? |
