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W. Watson wrote:
I've been browsing in some physics books, two in particular. "Physics

Simplified" by Epstein and "Mad About Physics" by Potter and
Jardonski (sp?).
The idea of both books is to pose puzzlers and then explain their
answers. Both
have more than a handful of questions that apply to boating. One
question
involves undertow that is created by a sharp turn in a river or
stream. Another
concerns flow from a narrow channel into a wide channel and vice
versa.

[snip]

It just struck me that if these observations are right (the authors),
then there
*might* be some way of handling them that is thought out and one
could use to
there advantage instead of blindling paddling into the action.