paddling (coracle) 1:11:47 [2] 8.32 km (8:37 / km)
Nashua River in Lancaster. I'd been thinking about this section for a while, but I was guessing that it would be possible only when the water was high, and that it might have a bunch of snags and pileups that I might need to drag the boat around, so I took the blue boat. It turned out to be more civilized than I expected, never had to get out, just one place where I had to skootch over a submerged log, and a couple of other places where there was a little bumper boat action. The put in has been labeled as a canoe launch for a while, but it was overgrown and uninviting until very recently. Now there's construction under way to make it all nice. I started by seeing if I could go upstream, but it almost immediately turned to quickwater and I couldn't make any headway, so I turned around. For some of the time this was just a sled ride, and I was kind of just paddling to keep the bow pointed downstream, and in any case the speed of travel is not indicative of the effort. My form is rusty, and my left elbow complained a little. Lots of ducks out there.
pedaling (city bike) 9:05 [3] 3.54 km (2:34 / km) +10m 2:32 / km
And then back to fetch the car, using the Schwinn that I had stashed ahead of time.