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Don White Don White is offline
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Default River sailing question

Ernest Scribbler wrote:
"Don White" wrote

How wide is the river & how fast does it flow?



It's about 200 yards wide and there's normally very little current. At my
house the wind is most often straight upriver. A picture being worth a dozen
words, here are a couple of photos from my back yard, looking upstream:
http://users.adelphia.net/~blizzard3...ges/cover8.jpg
http://users.adelphia.net/~blizzard3/home/nightsky.jpg



I'd sail a smaller boat there, assuming it's at least 4 feet deep most
places. With a small outboard you can just motor back against the wind
if you tire of tacking.