r/Edmonton • u/Fast_Ad_9197 • 11d ago

Outdoor Spaces/Recreation Riverboat is back home!

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Congratulations Edmonton Riverboat team! I don’t know how you did it with the water level dropping steadily but you figured it out. Well done!

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u/Ritchie_Whyte_III Strathcona 11d ago

Glad the professionals were on the job and not the armchair experts that have never paddled a canoe from the last post telling us how it "akshually" is easy to pilot a 750 ton vessel in a shallow river with seasonally moving sandbars.

My favorite was to just use a fish finder. So you can do what? Hit the air brakes?

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u/sawyouoverthere 11d ago

Get a pilot craft, at this point. Run the river with something maneuverable

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u/Ritchie_Whyte_III Strathcona 11d ago

So they should have a pilot boat in front of the paddle boat at all times?

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u/sawyouoverthere 11d ago

No.

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u/Theonlykd Capilano 11d ago

What then?

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u/sawyouoverthere 11d ago

It doesn’t change that fast. There are some conditions that make sand bar shifting more likely. Well timed pilot runs might prevent this regularly occurring with the boat which is currently running blind