Comments on: Day 8: Chuar Canyon to Above Hance Rapid http://www.historicriverboatsafloat.org/day-8-chuar-canyon-to-above-hance-rapid/ Learn about and promote the history of River Running Fri, 04 Apr 2014 16:43:18 -0700 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.4 By: John Blaustein http://www.historicriverboatsafloat.org/day-8-chuar-canyon-to-above-hance-rapid/comment-page-1/#comment-297 Sun, 16 Mar 2014 19:19:59 +0000 http://www.historicriverboatsafloat.org/?p=2137#comment-297 Hi Helen,

Wonderful journal. Thanks for keeping us up to date on your trip.

Martin Litton did indeed give me the Flavell II (then called the Hetch Hetchy) to row on the second of two trips he ran in 1970. And, yes, I ran it into the rocks at the bottom of Unkar. When we got the boat to shore on the right just below the rapid and inspected the damage, Martin did indeed say the boat had been banged up like that before, but just not all at once.

Wally Rist rowed the Hetch Hetchy the rest of that trip. When Martin got the boat back to his California house, he cut it up and burned it in his fireplace.

In 1971, Martin gave me the Susie Two (then called Music Temple) to row on the four trips he ran that summer. The boat was retired after those trips and now lives in the Park Service museum on the South Rim.

John Blaustein

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