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It does what I need it for. Can load and unload my self..and keeps me afloat. Lol. The only white water I've ever seen is at a log jam where it foams up, but I think that'd be awesome.

INDyak I attended school at Midland and graduated from Shakamak. Fish Hilldebrand and other area pits but have not been there for a couple of years after buying a bigger boat. I just finished rebuilding my father's old boat and trailer so I can fish the smaller lakes and West Fork. Weather making it tuff right now.

Originally Posted by INDyak

It does what I need it for. Can load and unload my self..and keeps me afloat. Lol. The only white water I've ever seen is at a log jam where it foams up, but I think that'd be awesome.

Stay at away from log jams and dams across rivers.

@whaler...if you went to midland then it would've been Jasonville school wouldn't it? Or was that the very beginning of shakamak. Not trying to take a stab just curios. Neither midland, jasonville, or coalmont are still standing.

@cevans I'm curious as to why?

Originally Posted by cevans

Stay at away from log jams and dams across rivers.

log jams also trees ( in the kayak world called strainers) across rivers and creeks suck water under them. They can easily suck a kayak under water and you also. Dams across rivers and streams have a roller of water under them, same for water falls. You will be sucked down and can’t get out. The hydraulics of the water flow will work against you. Both can easily kill you. Reading the water current flow is a very learning experience and is only taught to you by someone that has learned it before you and passed on. Reading the flow of a water current is developed with time and the experience of running it. There is no room in moving water for trial and error. There is I think still a club in Indy,that teaches the basics of white water kayaking. Indiana Canoe Club and they teach river canoeing and kayaking as well as survival skills in moving water. I took a couple of courses of whitewater survival in class 3 waters at East Race in downtown South Bend as a kayak course built up there. Most of the Fire Departments and Police Depts. train up there as the water can be controlled as to how it’s built. Also did a couple of whitewater schools at Natahalia Outdoor Center in Brycson City SC and Ace Whitewater School on Gaulie and New River in West Va. before working up to class 4 and 5 whitewater. I quit running the rivers in 2003 as it’s a young guys sport and the older you get, you eventually loose your reflexes and slow down and my beat up body doesn’t get along with being slammed into granite rocks any more. You also develop a fear factor with ageing. You have to overcome the fear factor in running class 4-5. Maybe it’s called common sense as we get older also.

I cannot emphasize enough about learning the reading of the flow of moving water. There is a different current under the water you cannot see especially when trees are across water and moving water around log jams. We avoided and always walked around them. More people in kayaks get killed by trees across water, log jams, and dams and wing dams as well. Some people never get the hang of reading moving water current and it’s always a learning experience as no 2 are ever the same with water rising and constantly dropping changing the hydrolics of the flow of water. You don’t have these problems on lakes, ponds, or strip pits.

Inyak Graduated from Shakamak 1965 before the new school was completed. Great advice Cevans that even boaters need to pay attention to. I spent a lot of time on both the West Fork and East Fork. I have witnessed a couple of unbelievable events on EF due to the current and a huge whirlpool. I am very particular about my river boating buddy and never take my life vest off. Saw my first drowning at the falls when I was four. The kid was four years old too. I survived a boating incident once. May not be lucky twice. You can never be too safe on the water, any water.

Damn. Thanks that's a lot of good useful info. I didn't learn that much about water current in the Navy so I think that's saying something.

@whaler out of curiosity what's the family name?

Southeast side of Indy. Fish eagle creek some. And travel to the southwest part of the state a lot as well. And do a Reelfoot trip every year.


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