That was me who made the suggestion, and I know whereof I speak--do an advanced search for the word "rafting" in titles only, display as threads any time frame and you'll find the reports of our Rafting Raffers trips from 2011 and 2012, which were fairly epic. Especially the first one, due to insane weather thingies. Anyway, @
Chacoguy definitely knows shit from shinola about fucking about in boats and he's currently headquartered in the Durango vicinity if I recall correctly.
I'm still trying to get him up here to the PNW to try some of our cold rivers that you can see what's almost eating you down in the water because no silt.