Yep; the river gets crazy on weekends. Especially holiday weekends. People break out their fancy boat toys that will go 90 mph. Next thing you know someone in another boat isn’t where they are expected to be and... wham. People die from this all time. I’m actually surprised it doesn’t happen more often.
The locals know to stay off the water on weekends.
Yep, parts of the river got crazy 40 years ago, can’t imagine what it’s like now.
Yeah, I made the mistake of taking a river to a lake in FL on a weekend. It was a big time party lake for rich kids in their $75k boats. Every time one of them flew past me, I had to turn our little sailboat sideways so their wake wouldn’t flip us over.
The 'friendly' Fox River in Illinois is a classic example.
My house is right down the road and I never take my boats out on the Holiday Weekends. But this happens all the time here, and there are usually a half dozen or so on Holidays.
With NO moon, going through Topock can be pretty wild, I have done it ONCE and will NEVER try again.