Send the picture to Lavro. Ron down there will tell you if it is his boat or not. Certainly does not look like any driftboat I have ever seen. Only been rowing driftboats since about 1975 and using sleds since 1980. Still have an old eastside glass guides model. Looks to me like this may have been a modified driftboat. Have seen a few wooden kits like these but never one in glass. I believe it is www.lavro.com, but you can look it up.

The saying is "There is 2kinds of drift boaters, those that have swamped and those that are going to swamp" It hasn't happened to me yet but it might someday. The duck

That boat doesn't look like a Lavro to me either. It does look very similar, maybe the current is disforming it. I'm glad to here everyone is safe.

Looks like a Lavro to me. The front deck has a plano box on it and that is why it looks funny.
The side reinforcements for the oarsmen seat are defintely Lavro made. Just a bad angle on the picture. The only reason it even resembles
a drift boat at all is because it is a Lavro. Best
damn glass boat made!!

The Sauk is taking more than drift boats. Last Sunday at the old put in across from where the Suiattle River comes into the Sauk there was a trailer attached to a pick up in the river. Pickup was submerged up to about the hood with just the cab out of the river. Hope they were able to get it out before the river came up. That is one steep put in to be backing a truck down anymore.
You all please be carefull so as not to ruin your day fishing.

LT,
Are you talking about the rough launch just above the new launch? What time did you see that pickup in the river and what color was it? We stopped to help a guy pull his truck and trailer back up from the gully, but it hadn't gone in the river. It got wedged after going over when the E brake failed. No one hurt fortunately, and his rig was okay. That was about 11:00 AM, just wondering if it happened again after that.

Steelyman
To answer your question, running that stretch with a guide would help only if it occurred since the last high water. What makes this stretch dangerous is that it changes significantly with every flood. And my point was that rowing skill is really not the most important issue...it's judgement and attitude.
I estimate that 9/10 accidents, close calls, etc are caused by inattention or poor judgement more than rowing errors. All of my close calls have been, and yes I swamped (not sank thank goodness!) my boat once.
Don't be too proud to get out and look and walk the boat if necessary. I did to get past the stump entering the left channel, to avoid where this accident occurred...probably coulda rowed it but why take the chance? It only took a minute or two. And no matter how good you row I don't think you coulda got over the tree that sank them. Don't take the channel if you can't see the way through. We took the left channel because we could...even though it was a little tough to get into and had a coupla sweepers.

Jam session, thanks for the reply!! I never meant to question the judgment behind the use of caution in your post, but...... it sure is funny how there are more people willing to joke about such an accident and discuss what kind of stinkin boat it is than to think that there were people on the boat that had to go through it! SO once again I say I sure hope that no one got hurt, And... (for u JS) that they learned their lesson! There is that old saying nothing risked nothing gained!! Looks like a pretty good spot to pull in and fish behind some of those sweepers.

We learn from our mistakes, and hopefully live through them to learn!!!
Be safe all!!!