> The water going over the falls, as is so obvious in > the photos, goes out for quite a ways before it goes down. So Jesse's > boat goes over the lip and enders as it picks up speed with the nose > down. > Somebody, I think Jim Snyder or Jess Whittemore, calculated that in order for him to have cleared the water And the boulder field at the bottom, he needed to have achieved a speed of something like 17 miles per hour in the stretch above. Joe P. *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Thu Oct 09 2003 - 07:53:57 PDT
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