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rapids boat

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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a specially equipped river boat of shallow draft used on the Mackenzie River for marking safe channels by buoys and markers, a constant task because of the shifting sandbanks.

See: sturgeon-head (boat)

Quotations

1948

Here [are] the rapids boats--sturgeon-head boats they were called, "something between a scow and a York boat" with blunt, rounded bows. . . .

1958

The branch, with Headquarters at Fort Smith, N.W.T., does this through two methods; by means of its own rapids boats and through the cooperation of the captains of all river vessels.