Raft technologies, too, have advanced. Today they are made of more durable plastic and fabric composites with improved seams. Rafts used 10 and 20 years ago, now called bucket boats, were not very user-friendly. As water poured in, boaters had to bail it out. The chore could doom runs through wild rapids.
Water flows in, water flows out, and everyone concentrates on paddling.
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