In case you’ve never been rafting- You can’t just sit on those big ol’ wet rubber boats. I mean, you’re taking what amounts to a lever and shoving the big flat end into something that pushes back, and then you’re expected to propel a big heavy raft with it. If you don’t wedge your feet under the thwarts or into some footstraps or other wise pin yourself in that boat, you’re gonna fling yourself out now and again. Not that such a thing can’t be fun. It’s just that it’s more fun for the people who remain in the boat to see you fly out than it is for you to fly out yourself. And let’s face it, they’re smug enough for having kept their seats… there’s no reason for you to provide any additional entertainment for them. So don’t make it easy for them to get you back in the raft. Flounder and sputter a little. Gasp and drift with the current away from the raft a bit. Maybe pull a couple of would-be rescuers in with ya. Make it the MOST fun for as many people as you can.
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Love the way the water just flows on through all three panels smoothly…
Kara gets to fish Mr. S-C out, right? I bet…
Greg, shame. At least after the first one self-parts from the boat. First one, yeah they can be smug. After that they learn, right? Um…
“I’ve changed my mind!”
Go rocks!
I don’t mind flying out of the raft — it’s the landing that can suck.
I have been following this series w ith interest, would love to go rafting, but…
My knee replacements were, literally, attached to the bones with Superglue…OK, Surgical Acrylic Glue. I would worry about losing one (or both) from the strain & shock.
Am I being overcautious? Anyone with joint replacements like to weigh in on this?
Any input would be appreciated, thanks…
What does your surgeon say about it?
Congratulations that your body and medical superglue play nice… and that you got your knees all fixed up.
Maybe you won’t be able to do ‘Old Age Rapids’ like Hubris and Co can but there may be some gentler chunks you could raft.
I sure hope the answer can be a resounding YES for you!
Cyanoacrylates are magnificent molecules. That stuff is just awesome and much stronger than bone.
>What does your surgeon say about it?
“Not recommended”, he says. He feels that I might come out fine, but I will out of circulation for 4 – 6 months if the prosthesis needs to be replaced.
He also told me to stay off ladders, that’s why my new job is on the ground, not up on the structural steel I used to inspect…
Well dangola. Someone mentions under the next cartoon, Apple River in Wisconsin is mostly a floater; maybe that sort of water? Glad though that you’re feeling good.
KNO3, me and cyanos don’t stay together. I don’t know how many ER visits, new place, and I request sutures, they say nah, we’ll glue you, I say it won’t hold. They glue, it parts. They clean it up differently, they glue, it parts; they clean it up again, they glue, it parts. They get the syringe of local and they start shooting. My local ER knows me and inside the cover of my chart they wrote ‘don’t glue, sew’ on the important-stuff cheat sheet…
The only place ‘superglue’ stays stuck to me is on my fingernails. There it lasts about three days or whenever it grows out long enough to be cut off. Except, it won’t keep acrylic nails stuck to my real ones. It just stays there like surly and ugly lumpy fingernail polish unless I get the solvent out.
Been on more than one raft trip where one of the paddlers flew out of the boat from not bracing right, now matter how well we drilled it in to them before the put-in. The Skykomish river in Washington was especially good at ejecting people mid rapid. One of the other guides even got thrown in the drink clean over the head of the front paddler right at the end of Boulder Drop – he took a lot of ribbing for that but it led to a great pic from one of the resident bank-side photographers..
Most entertaining guide was Ray, who on calmer stretches had a habit of running the length of the raft yelling “snake in the boat” and jumping into the river from the prow. More than one rider blindly followed him in. Good times! Any day on the rivers beat a day in the office.