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I ran the stretch of the Gunnison River last weekend at ~10,000 cfs and heard a very strange sound coming from the either the vicinity of the pontoons of my cat or from the water under the platform. The sound was like "frying bacon" with a popping noise. It wasn't constant at least that I could tell. I looked for bubbles but didn't have a great vantage since the decking on my cat is a poly max mesh deck. My sight was limited and had to pay attention to the river mostly as debris was all over the place and I was moving.
I inflated the tubes and cleaned with sudsy soaping water and couldn't really find a leak of consequence when I got home. The only bubbles I saw came from D-ring patches that overlapped the seam tape. The one or two bubbles came out when I had to really push down hard. Infrequent bubbles seem to be air from the overlapped fabric. Someone told me that with the river cranking the debris and sediment is being churned up and the fine sediment would likely be the cause of that sound. Buzzards what do you think?
I inflated the tubes and cleaned with sudsy soaping water and couldn't really find a leak of consequence when I got home. The only bubbles I saw came from D-ring patches that overlapped the seam tape. The one or two bubbles came out when I had to really push down hard. Infrequent bubbles seem to be air from the overlapped fabric. Someone told me that with the river cranking the debris and sediment is being churned up and the fine sediment would likely be the cause of that sound. Buzzards what do you think?