Ferrying a White Water Canoe

Video Transcript

"A ferry is to get from side of the river to the other without losing to much ground. You can ferry across any current depending on how strong the current is, ferrying can be really challenging and can be one of the most challenging things we do in white water canoing. The basic principles of our ferry are that you want to be pointed straight up straight stream when you ferry when you start off in the eddy on the far side. Then when you do the ferry itself we're going to use that clock face to determine the angle. If you have 12 o'clock up stream we're going to be ferrying something around at 11 o'clock or at 1 o'clock angle depending on what side we're coming from. Then when we start when you have that angle your going to paddle up stream against the current not expecting to get up stream but expecting just to neutralize the current so that you can get across the river and not lose ground down stream. So those are the basic principles of doing a ferry and in the next 2 segments we're going to go into the final points of ferrying and explaining how to get the right angle and how to lean and how to paddle and how to make a successful ferry."