There's a long standing but mostly humorous feud between canoers and kayakers. But both stand together against rafters . . . first time my daughter and I went on one of the whitewater trips sponsored by our paddling club, I was chatting with one of the club instructors who was leading the trip. She had a huge (and I do mean HUGE) SCUBA diving sheath knife strapped to the bottom of her PFD. I asked her, "Is that to cut your buddy if you see a shark?" and she pulled it halfway out of the sheath and hissed, "No. Rafters!"
LMAO!
I do have to admit I had the time of my life rafting on the Colorado River, but I can understand where she's coming from. There really isn't a whole heck of a lot of control with a raft. (We won our race against the boss's raft, though)! *grin*