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Show Record is entirely away from your power boat. The wheel, if you work it hard, will pull a certain amount of water out from under the power boat. If you have sufficient space of water, no load much in your power boat, it won't sink under those conditions so bad as if the load were directly on the boat, and it is more boyant, allows the water to run underneath and gives your a better power. The boat that has the load on it is so far away it has no effect on what the wheel draws out from under the other boat. Load it a foot and it will have a foot all the time, because there isn't anything to take the water out from underneath it. Take a boat with either a screw propeller or a paddle wheel, and the operation of the propeller or paddle wheel has a tendency to make that end of the boat sink lower, owing to how 4781 much load is in the boat and how near it is to the ground. If you have plenty of water it won't sink so bad. As you get closes to the ground it will sink it more if you are pulling hard. The tieing of the front end of the Marguerite to a scow, has the same effect on the Marguerite as pushing two boats up stream. 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 comes up and it loses displacement, if you haven't got the bow loaded down or tied down someway, it throws the displacement on maybe two- thirds or half your boat; in getting over this, if you have a boat ahead, it pre-vents that to a certain degree. As to difficulties in operating the Marguerite between my ranch and Greenriver town or obstructions to navigation, I will say that stretch is practically swift water, and what I would term rapids. What makes a rapid, in my opinion, is water flowing in from the big washes in rains carrying a great amount of stuff that will narrow the river up and shift it over. They usually come in the fall of the year when it is low water. They are what I call rapids. There are quite a number of them between my ranch and town. It is simply a matter of power on the rest of it, except the Brown riffle. I call that rather dangerous because there are two |