Ok here is the story of the broken oar. I am not much of a writer so I am sure I will not tell it as sketchy as it was but......
We were floating the upper Wenatchee river (which I have done 100's of times) where it is a little bit harry but not really too bad cause there is lots of green lines to avoid the bigger water. Down toward the bigger water at the middle bottom of the float up river of Cashmere a bit you start on the right side and go to the left to avoid series of rapids big waves and drops and just as I was going over left a big stroke and POW! My right oar just exploded and now we are drifting sideways into some big steep waves. I have a spare oar in the back and the guy fishing the back of the boat grabbed it and we had it in just in time to at least turn the boat to hit waves bow first as we took on many many gallons of water as waves crashed over the bow! If we would have hit it sideways we would have for sure been dumped into 38 degree water with waders on in the middle of the biggest rapid on the river! It would not have been good at all!! And our fish would have fell out!! lol But as it was with the spare oar in place we could avert a bad situation and turn it into just a good story!
The moral here is that a a spare oar saves lives! If I would have had a break down spare oar that I had to assemble that I kept under the front bench seat ,that I had in my other boat, it would have been too late to avoid the the big water and it would have been 1 oar and that would NOT have been good!
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