Wednesday, Jan 12, 2011 at 15:45
A tinny and outboard wouldnt have last 5mins where we were operating.
The river was 15
miles long and in a good rain came up 3ft an hour. We used to work till it got up to about 15 ft.
The lake we ran in was full of petrified trees and a prop wouldnt last long.
We had to blast a channel up for about a mile to even run the Jet.
Have been on a 45ft launch at
the wharf at Sandfly Point in Milford Sound with the engine going half ahead just to stay there.
I had sat for nearly two hours in a 14ft clinker dinghy trying to get across the current and couldnt so had to get launch to tow me across.
Lots of fun and had a log or something hit the prop I would have been out to sea in a flash. Horses for courses I guess.
Idling in rubbish was a problem but more so was idling in shallow water as it picked up the gravel and blocked the intake.
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