You've posted about being a novice boater and asking where the easier sections on the Dolores are. Are you sure you're up for Westwater in the "Terrible Teens?"
For better or worse, your wife may never want to come boating with you again...
-AH
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Nothing in the world is more yielding and gentle than water. Yet it has no equal for conquering the resistant and tough. The flexible can overcome the unbending; the soft can overcome the hard. - Lao Tse
besides, I am ga-ron-teed to make it to little d, and that's like 30 miles in so....
besides it will be fun for sure, just tie the shit down really good, mabey glue it in.