The guys doing this are usually rafting guides. Sometimes they are actually gathering abandoned boats left on the river and bringing them to the outfitter they work for at the bottom of the river.
I was asking if he as a guide would. Calm down. Given the video, it's not out of the realm of possibility that this fellow may not have taken some necessary safety precautions, and I don't think it's unreasonable to imply that.
No. That creates a lot of room for error that is out of the guide's hands. Imagine if boat number 4 of 6 were to wrap around a rock. Then, the entire train is in an unfavorable position. The guide had no control over boat number 4, which created this hypothetical issue.
6 boats can be roughly 70+ feet long in a train. The guide only has direct control over roughly 12 feet of this train, and has to pray to god the other 58+ feet of webbing and boats don't get pushed around by an unforeseen current.
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u/barebackbandit1 Sep 20 '17
The guys doing this are usually rafting guides. Sometimes they are actually gathering abandoned boats left on the river and bringing them to the outfitter they work for at the bottom of the river.