How Do You Ferry Aggressively In Whitewater Rafting?
“An aggressive ferry is often used when the current coming downstream is very fast. So when the crew is unable to keep pace with the current and they know that if they go out there with a conservative angle, they’re just going to lose ground immediately. So understanding what sort of current you’re paddling in, reading water affectively and the choosing the right maneuver is the key to your success. With an upstream aggressive ferry, you want to have a wide open angle and charge across stream understanding that you are going to lose a certain amount of ground but you’re still going to have to get across the river to an area that you need to get to or to avoid and obstacle. Again, the aggressive upstream ferry is where you open up a wide angle, you expose a longer side of the rock to the current and then you paddle holding that angle across the river. The guides job is to maintain the angle.
