"RG" wrote in message
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Lower Rogue. Ran from about 10 miles above Gold Beach to about Blossom
Bar. Which is about 50 miles up river. The toilet was at the Dinner and
there was a womens john and then the mens john that made sure the seat
was up.


Mrs. G and I took the run to Blossom Bar last summer in one of Jerry's
Jets. It was a great run and I got some good photos of the wildlife along
the way (eagles, osprey, otters and deer). Your video contained many
familiar sights.

Our boat was a 40 footer powered by three Chevy 496 V8's The skipper
firewalled the throttles on the way back to Gold Beach and I clocked him
at 52 mph with the portable GPS I was carrying. The current was probably
good for maybe 5 mph of the 52 at that part of the river.


I have taken the same Jerry's jetboat trip. Highly recommend it. Book on
line and you save a couple bucks. Was snowing maybe 300' higher than us,
and we only saw bird life, no otters, deer or bear this time of year. They
run Berkeley style pumps and that gives a higher speed than the Hamilton /
Kodiak pumps most of us run. the Low Pressure Hamilton's hook up better in
white water. Maxfield and anouther boater hired one of the guide boat
drivers for training, and some still hit. One of the tour boats sunk a
couple years ago. Probably hit a rock and sliced the bottom. No one wet or
hurt.