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Mike Harris Mike Harris is offline
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Default River sailing question

Don't bother sailing the river, or don't bother motoring back? G
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Mike Harris
Austin, TX

"G&G" wrote in message
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Don't bother.
G
"Don White" wrote in message
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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.