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Ferry Solution?
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Tuckahoe wrote:
Maybe for the Kennebec?
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Pretty cool. But it would still need to be staffed. What if you get there and it's on the wrong side?
Here is another way to do it. We have a small chain ferry near us in Sugatuck MI. It's been in operation since 1838 and may be the last chain ferry in operation. Since there is not much current in this channel, you need human power. There is a stationary chain that lies on the bottom of the river. A hand crank on the ferry turns a cog wheel that pulls the chain through the wheel to pull the ferry back and forth across the channel. It's about 250 feet across.
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In Sweden there are unstaffed ferry crossings on the Kungsleden (one of their long distance trails) that simply have three rowboats - one on one side and two on the other. If you are lucky, you get to the side with two boats and you simply row across. But if you get to the side with one boat you have to row across, bring one boat back from the other side and leave where you started and row the second over to the other side and keep going. It works until you get some butt-head who leaves three boats on one side. But in Sweden, everyone is nice so that never happens. -
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odd man out wrote:
In Sweden there are unstaffed ferry crossings on the Kungsleden (one of their long distance trails) that simply have three rowboats - one on one side and two on the other. If you are lucky, you get to the side with two boats and you simply row across. But if you get to the side with one boat you have to row across, bring one boat back from the other side and leave where you started and row the second over to the other side and keep going. It works until you get some butt-head who leaves three boats on one side. But in Sweden, everyone is nice so that never happens.
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AnotherKevin wrote:
odd man out wrote:
In Sweden there are unstaffed ferry crossings on the Kungsleden (one of their long distance trails) that simply have three rowboats - one on one side and two on the other. If you are lucky, you get to the side with two boats and you simply row across. But if you get to the side with one boat you have to row across, bring one boat back from the other side and leave where you started and row the second over to the other side and keep going. It works until you get some butt-head who leaves three boats on one side. But in Sweden, everyone is nice so that never happens.
What's the fox doing there anyway?
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Da Wolf wrote:
just ford the damn river. it ain't no biggie
I live waterfront on a stretch that's sandwiched between two hydro dams. Dam-regulated flow isn't something I mess with.Dogs are excellent judges of character, this fact goes a long way toward explaining why some people don't like being around them. -
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SarcasmTheElf wrote:
Da Wolf wrote:
just ford the damn river. it ain't no biggie
I live waterfront on a stretch that's sandwiched between two hydro dams. Dam-regulated flow isn't something I mess with.
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uncle meat wrote:
"if I drown fording a river my wife would kill me"~R
What is she trying to say???????
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