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>>905913
I've been up and down the Columbia river, including through cascade locks. Sailing on rivers is sometimes a pain in the ass because you're always tacking and have to monitor charts carefully in narrow sections so that you'll always be in the shipping channel or whatever so you don't run aground.

Versus open water, it's much more engaging. On blue water, you sometimes just set your sails and keep your heading for hours. Obviously much less to explore on a river....

>>>/trv/

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Anonymous Sun 04 Dec 2016 16:43:49 No.905941 Report

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>>905913
>mfw tacking in a 200 m wide river

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Anonymous Sun 04 Dec 2016 18:37:12 No.906028 Report

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Thinking Mississippi on a 18'
Good idea?

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Anonymous Sun 04 Dec 2016 20:32:40 No.906094 Report

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>>905913
no that seems dangerous AF.

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Anonymous Sun 04 Dec 2016 20:59:13 No.906106 Report

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>>905913
I don't sail much but i do have a friend who's got a boat and i've joined him about 10 times in the past three years. His boat is docked somewhere in the Scheldt estuary in the netherlands. It's very wide at most spots but sometimes the deep passage can be very narrow, 100 meters or even less. The thing is its an estuary so there is tides, which means the current can be very strong and can go both upstream as downstream. You really have to take in account from which direction the wind is going and when the tides are switching so you can think in advance which route you take and around which sand banks you turn. We've had times when we had to put down the sails and switch to the motor cause we had the wind and current against and had to tack every 30 seconds without making any progress (because of bad planning). The good thing is its all sand and mud so if you hit the bottom its not a big deal, when you get stuck its not a big deal if the tide is rising but otherwise you have to be very quick to motor yourself out or jump off the boat and try to tow yourself out with ropes from the shore or another boat if its possible. worst case you have to wait 6 hours and maybe sleep on the boat, but we haven't had that problem. It's fun though just think ahead and keep focused. If you got the current and wind right its very smooth, fast and relaxing.

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Anonymous Sun 04 Dec 2016 21:08:42 No.906110 Report

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>>906106
oh we navigate with maps or gps and the boat has a depth meter too. Also there is plenty of bouys or sticks which indicate where it isn't deep enough. But sometimes there hasn't been dredged in a while and its not very accurate. In some areas we go beyond the buoys a bit cause we don't wanna tack every 30 seconds. Also cause its dredged the slope can be very steep so you have to watch that depth meter constantly if you go beyond the buoys.

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Anonymous Mon 05 Dec 2016 02:06:20 No.906292 Report

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http://www.keepturningleft.co.uk/

This guy has been exploring every little estuary and river and whatnot around England for the past decade in tiny sailboats.

It´s fucking fantastic.

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Pepsi !n/ZnkB9jUw Mon 05 Dec 2016 02:12:10 No.906296 Report

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>posts a NASCAR blog in a sailing thread

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