[blackdog]

If you have ever been on the Delaware River, you know there is no way anyone rowed a boat from shore to shore. A boat to cross the river would have to start out about five miles upstream because the river currents are so fast and powerful. A boat crossing at 90 degrees to the current would tip over right away.

Washington may have crossed the Delaware but it wasn't at the place called "Washington's Crossing". It's a fast moving current, rolling like a big blender.

[Alberta's Child]

Since the early 1800s there had been several dams built on the Delaware River and its tributaries upstream of Trenton. These were originally constructed for canal systems used for commercial transportation, but the most recent major dam project — the Merrill Creek Dam and reservoir in Warren County, NJ — was built in the 1980s to regulate and maintain the flow of water into the Delaware River for cooling systems in downstream power plants.

I would venture to guess that the river doesn’t look quite the same as it did back in colonial times.

[oldbill]

The Delaware River is tidal as far up as Trenton.
How do you think Washington crossed it - a bridge?

[T.B. Yoits]

If you have ever been on the Delaware River, you know there is no way anyone rowed a boat from shore to shore. A boat to cross the river would have to start out about five miles upstream because the river currents are so fast and powerful. A boat crossing at 90 degrees to the current would tip over right away. Washington may have crossed the Delaware but it wasn't at the place called "Washington's Crossing". It's a fast moving current, rolling like a big blender.

???

The Delaware River at the point is tidal and the water would be flat calm at high or low tide.