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Show 455 which is very difficult to cross and causing delays of a day or two in boating. In normal water more miles per hour can be made down stream with the big boat but in case a sand bar is struck it is more difficult to get off than when boating up stream because current keeps shoving the boat tighter against the bar. R. 1168. Q. So far as case of navigation with this large boat is concerned, leaving out the question of speed, do I understand your to say it is easier to navigate up than to navigate down? A. Ordinarily going up stream we run on to a bar, we can back off of it and try it again, but in numerous cases we have found going up stream no places deep enough that we could use the rudder properly and hold it up stream; find it very difficult to go up stream, because we couldn't handle the boat; it would turn around; the back end of the boat strikes bottom, and you lose your rudder control of your boat; your can't handle it." R. 1168- 1169 Bars are occasionally encountered in high water because it is impossible to see where the bars are and it is natural to attempt to out across corners in boating. If no trouble were encountered the trip from Moab down to Shafer No. I well would consume from two to two and one- half hours; the return trip consuming from six to seven hours, sometimes longer. |
