Thwart Position Setup

In this video we got together with our friend Blake Spudman to talk about thwart positioning and setting yourself up a little differently in an r2. Sliding your thwarts back can allow you to take more advantage of your rocker by getting the bow up slightly more. When you are running steeper drops this prevents you from plugging into the bottom of the drop and your bow scooping up a ton of water. Another advantage is that the raft can feel more maneuverable due to less of the bow being in the water. The disadvantage of using this configuration is that you can go too far back and if your bow starts slapping wave trains then you could flip end over end in a large wave.