I recently just purchased a jet for my boat to run the shallows of the river. Last weekend while running in about 4 inches of water at full speed i noticed a cluster of about 20 plus canoes in front of me. There was no way I could let off the throttle with out damaging my motor/boat/myself! So I proceded to cut a path around them and even zig zagged a little closer than I would have liked to. Needless to say middle fingers and f-bombs where coming from every direction! So my questions is when the river is bottle necked with canoes and you are traveling in the shallows who really has the right of way?????