Bill,
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Are you sure thats class 4? <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" /> Sounds more like class 5. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" /> Ayway I have canoed in raging storm swollen rivers (including the Snake) when I was younger and smarter. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> And I DO have a story about staying dry as the canoe was swept out from under us right infront of a sweeper (a long extending into the river at the surface.)

So Anyway I had already lost the bow guy somewhere back upstream and I hoped he could swim as we had no life jackets. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" /> He was simply tossed out of the canoe. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" /> The Napa River was like 20 feet above flood stage right? <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" /> Wild was not a correct <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" /> term for the turbulence. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> I was wearing some old helly hanson coated nylon rain gear with a wool shirt under it. So anyway the boat is being sucked under and I'm looking at this tree ahead of me (Did I mention the loud crashing sound or the adrenalin?) <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> and it was about 15 feet to the shore. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" />
I remmember pushing off the boat as I "ran" across the river to the shore <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" />. I remember being astonished that 1- I was alive 2- I actually made it - and 3 - my shirt was completely dry... <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif" alt="" />
Jim <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />
Did I mention that it was a homemade plywood canoe? <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" />