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Post by Deleted on Aug 4, 2014 18:50:48 GMT -5
Y'all have " grandes cajones" all I can say!!
Cool story!
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Post by Haines Garage on Aug 4, 2014 20:27:43 GMT -5
Need to see more of this boat build as it happens!
Just Plain Ole Cool!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 5, 2014 7:10:54 GMT -5
I was always a strong competitive swimmer. I have fear/respect of the power of water. The kind of fear like standing on a cliff with no ropes and looking 3000 feet straight down. If you have ever whitewater canoed or rafted, and looked at the rotors on the back sides of dams, spillways , or natural huge boulders, you can see where one could get caught and never get out until drowned and then ground up into a bloody blob. No shit. A friend and I tied inner tubes together for "our grand voyage" down a flooding creek in Sturgis. No problem, it will be fun----------------WRONG! We both almost drowned. We never made it past the first corner. The water had carved under a huge Cotton wood and the roots came out horizontal at water level. The raft hit the roots and then sucked me down into a cavern under it where I could stand in. All I could see was a window of sunlight above me and I was going nowhere. I crouched down and shoved up with all my might and I popped out of the surface and saw a large root stem there. Grabbed it and the water knocked the wind out of me but I hung on. My friend sitting on the rear of the raft was laughing at me. I looked at him and said I almost drowned. Seconds later he went in the same hole. Then did the same thing I did. He wasn't laughing anymore. Be careful Jeep boys! We were tough and dumb. No life jackets either. They might have hindered you tough. I still shiver at the though of that black hole. A terrible death for sure. The story of the dam tube you wentt down Rudy made me nervous and you are lucky you are still here also! I don't like floating my Jeep either. All bad. Signed water leaker
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Post by rudycon on Aug 5, 2014 9:44:03 GMT -5
I think you guys overestimate the mighty DuPage River. It was only up a little on our boat trip.
Steve and I have ratfted a section in full flood. The 5' waterfall was just rapids at that level. We talked about undertow before we dropped in. Good thing. Inflatable raft flipped right away. We were both shoved to the bottom and swam along the bottom as long as we could and popped up downstream of the rolling churn. Yep. Bad idea. Raft was popped and that was the end of our Midwest rafting adventure.
Steve and I had lots of bad idea -er "managed risk?" Adventures. Lucky we never got the home made ultralight aircraft project off the ground. (Never got past the 1x1s will never hold argument.)
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Post by Haines Garage on Aug 24, 2014 20:24:20 GMT -5
Sir Gary ,
Just don't want this thread to get buried .
Cool as cucumbers !!!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 24, 2014 20:29:35 GMT -5
Thanks! Hopefully, there will be some updates soon!
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Post by Haines Garage on Aug 24, 2014 20:34:41 GMT -5
Not getting in your business !
Just thought it was a very cool thread !
I like stuff like that !
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Post by Deleted on Aug 24, 2014 20:57:06 GMT -5
Understand! Never thought you was..
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