Headway Speed

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Originally Posted by tis

Do you honestly think most people are going to go 1mph?????

No I do not. But it only takes one boater going through the Weirs Channel at an extremely slow speed to make it difficult for 20 boats in line behind them to maintain control. That is especially true when the dam is operating at a high flow rate.

While piloting a larger, higher vessel through the Channel I have passed a slow moving small boat because the wind was catching my boat and pushing it around. It was safer than going down the channel sideways or having the wind push the boat into the rocks.

Many people in boats are oblivious to what is going on behind them. (That seems to be true in cars too!)