Which of the Great Rivers have you

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boated on ?

Shame on me I have never been on the Thames /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

otherwise the Amazon, Zambesi, Nile, Orinoco, Mekong, Paranà as a fresh water mobo /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

still missing the Blue Danube and at least one of the big Russian rivers
 
The Nile. Did a spot of felluca racing with fellow expats. Try and imagine half a dozen drunken expats 'hiking out' on a 14' beam felluca as a lethal concoction of $h!t and bellharzia curls over the opposite gunwale. Great fun.
 
I think technically (and to be a smart****), the Blackwater is really a Ria - a drowned river valley and the point where it is truely a river it's a pathetic stream and then called the Chelmer. It has, however, got to be one of the best 'rivers' we've got to sail on.
 
Pretty sparse for me - Nil.

No big rivers at all in NZ (well a couple bigger than the Thames I suppose but fast flowing) and only other river I have ever been on a boat on is the Seine, which is small and I cheated (many times, you can easily guess how - always seemed to be lots of Germans, Brits, etc on board too /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif).

John
 
also

surely not a great river, but last week I sailed on the Odet (south brittany) and spotted AndrewB on his Sentinel going upstream

given the huge number of red/blue ensigns I saw, how many other forumites were there ?
 
European rivers

The Vaal (the Dutch Rhine), the Maas through to France, the Thames many times, recently the Main (from Mainz to Wurzberg). The Amstel in Amsterdam, the Lek, the Ijssel and many others in Holland.

My favourite river? The Rhine (der Rhein) possibly as it's so BIG and full of ships. I'm off there later to climb on the bridge at Cologne.
 
Been on the Mersey and the Dee a fair bit, does that count?


er,

I'll get my coat /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif
 
I've been on a jet boat in North Island NZ, where they go back up river, up waterfalls. Amazing stuff - balance throttle against flow, then time perfectly the throttle on to go up so that bow isn't taken under. Takes a bit of guts and fine control.
 
Yes Woofy, I have done the jet boating bit on rivers here.

The ones at Queenstown and alot of fun, and also proppy boats and sailboats on a few others (my parent's garden when I was a teenager ran down onto the banks of one of NZ's larger rivers, and we were boating that all the time, of course).

Some of my clients have been very good to me, on one occasion was invited to Queenstown, and among other things helicoptered from my hotel to a jet boat ride up the river with just me and two others on board so an "unofficial" thrill ride. That trip ended with one of the client's board members flying me back to Wellington in his private plane along the route of the Southern lakes and Alps. Was a very memorable break.

I have never bungeed though - and don't intend to, will leave that to BrendanS.

Regards

John
 
Been up the Liffey on a replica viking Knarr (Saga Siglar). The Shannon on a hire boat and up the Elbe on one of the biggest ships ever to enter HAmburg (MV Chrismir), all a bit of fun really.
 
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