@jhavok @dougfir @W6KME @ai6yr @douglasvb @camless @sarae I hear you on the speed part, but fly fishermen are pretty fungible around here.

@jhavok @ai6yr @dougfir @W6KME @douglasvb @camless @sarae In whitewater, maybe. In flatwater my kayak grounds in <6" so it hasn't exactly made me alert for shallows.

@jhavok @dougfir @W6KME @ai6yr @douglasvb @camless @sarae You guys are thinking about it completely wrong. You don't want a routefinder in a SHALLOW craft; you want one that's deeper than the sternwheeler so it gets stuck first.

I'm thinking either a fly fisherman in hip waders so when he steps wrong and they flood his loud cursing will alert the other captain to hit reverse, or a decommissioned Columbia River tug just because that compounds the transportation problem nicely.

@dougfir @W6KME @ai6yr @douglasvb @camless @sarae If only there were some sort of device that, I don't know, bounced sound waves or something through the water and measured how long it took for them to return and then calculated the depth, ideally on an ongoing basis as your ship moved. Someone probably should invent that!

@douglasvb @intrepidhero @camless @sarae @ai6yr I don't think getting it down Willamette Falls will be a problem at all. Getting it down them in one piece might be a little trickier.

@douglasvb @camless @Will @intrepidhero @sarae @ai6yr Coward.

Anyone in the market for a sternwheeler?
https://www.denisonyachtsales.com/yachts-for-sale/willamette-queen-87-custom

@flexghost You named your dog Hemingway? I love that! My dad was a huge Hem fan and passed it along. Aubrey was named after a literary figure too: Jack Aubrey, the big and doofy but brave (and long-tellow-haired) naval captain by Patrick O:Brian.

Hang in there, my friend. The love doesn't go away; it's harder to see, but it's still there. Hold to that.

@flexghost I'm very sorry. It's hard, because they give us far more than we give them, and they're better people than we are. I'm certain, though, that he and our Aubrey (also a rescue) are goofily and joyfully playing together right now.