grizwilson Posted June 30, 2016 Posted June 30, 2016 9 hours ago, Al Agnew said: It's called a back ferry. You can Google "back ferry canoe" and get a number of videos and other informational sites. I just looked at a few of them, and none that I saw really show the move as it's done on Ozark streams, but a number of them are pretty good at showing how you move the canoe across stronger current to enter weaker current, without letting the canoe go downstream in the stronger current. Basically, though, the simplest way to describe it is to angle the BACK of the canoe in the direction you want to go, and backpaddle. The angle, and maintaining that angle as you backpaddle, is what is most important. Thanks Al “If a cluttered desk is a sign, of a cluttered mind, of what then, is an empty desk a sign?”- Albert Einstein
Greasy B Posted June 30, 2016 Posted June 30, 2016 Back in the day I learned how to paddle a canoe reading the Red Cross guide to white water canoeing. Long out of print it had excellent illustrations of all the basic maneuvers. Maybe Al's book can do the same for future paddlers. His father touches the Claw in spite of Kevin's warnings and breaks two legs just as a thunderstorm tears the house apart. Kevin runs away with the Claw. He becomes captain of the Greasy Bastard, a small ship carrying rubber goods between England and Burma. Michael Palin, Terry Jones, 1974
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