Just wanted to share a story. Many years ago, my husband,son then 17, and I went for a long ride on PWCs. We left Cottonwood Cove Az. and headed to the Hoover Dam. We love Cottonwood Cove to launch.It was a long ride,but we stopped,explored coves etc.We went past Willow Beach were the water is ICE COLD. Just a little south of Hoover is the Hot Spring. We beached the PWCs in the soft sand and tied them off, no problem. The little hike back into the canyon was easy and then when you get back there a hot spring coming out of the canyon wall,underneath it a pool of steaming hot water with a sand bottom. Must be full of minerals, as your skin feels slick when you get out.Very relaxing! What could be better?And the beautiful colors and rugged look of the canyon was unspoiled. Fast forward to..its time to leave,its getting late and we have to make it back to Cottonwood before dark. Get to the pwc's and they are totally sitting on the sand. The water is SEVERAL FEET away. Our first thought was oh ---- now what? Remember pwcs, we don't have much on board with us. There was a area with some flow from up by the hot springs coming through a I suppose, man made drain. We started digging a trench in the sand with pointed rocks, hoping to get enough flow to move the boats. No luck it would take forever. We were thinking,how do we get enough to move the boats, a three person and two person at the time. Two stroke,but still very heavy. We did get out. How? I sat in front of that drain and plugged it with my back (opened up my life vest and used it as a drain cover with my body weight and held it as long as I could. Move away fast and it would cause a large amount of water to flow into our trench and it would move the boats inches with the two guys pulling them.) Don't remember how many times we had to do this,but it worked! And we got back safe and sound. Think we slept a little better that night. Well, we haven't been back since then. Our son is now 31. My husband and I are shopping for a pontoon. He wants to go back to the hot spring. I told him, you can't dig us out anymore if we get stuck and I can't hold back enough water to move a 22 ft. boat! Thank you! Happy boating everybody!