View topic - Unpinning a canoe video

Here's a vid so you can get an understanding on how to do it.
You can get various courses of Swift Water rescue in your area.
And the knowledge is invaluable.
Even though you may not be interested in running bigger WW pinning a boat can happen in any moving water or even lining the canoe.

https://vimeo.com/88618491

Jeff

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Choosing to save a river is more often an act of passion than of careful calculation. You make the choice because the river has touched your life in an intimate and irreversible way, because you are unwilling to accept its loss. — (David Bolling, Ho

Neat. The part at the end that he refers to as a "progressive vector" is clever.