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 used to sail 23' Sonars in the Charles River tidal basin between
Boston and Cambridge. The tall buildings make the winds variable and
unpredictable, but there is no significant current or commercial traffic
(this was before the Duck Tours started). Not sure how wide it is in
the tidal basin, but it looks similar to your pictures. Lots of
beginners learn to sail there, so it can't be too hard.

Click on CBI CAM for pictures: http://www.community-boating.org

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