Re: Sunday test cruise in the Fraser River
I'd be a bit careful in that river too.
No longer too many logs as when they started using bundle rafts, it slowed the beachcombers from "liberating" individual logs from rafts, but there still are some, and they can be hard to see.
I used to buy, and transport logs in that river in the mid 80's. What a trip! They used to flat raft them, but I refused to buy non-bundled rafts, as too many logs would mysteriously go missing. Fog was the worst culprit, as after a good fog, individual logs would be blown all over the river.
Most of them would be recovered by what they called "beachcombers", but of course they required a "recovery fee"
We managed to avoid much of the losses, but we always managed to lose lots of chains that tugboat companies would somehow misplace. You'd a thought there would have been a shortage of chains for as many as they lost, but at $35 apiece most of these missing chains apparently found their way back to the rafting companies
