Moving water is a different beast. What is "safe" depends on your skills at rowing, self rescue, swiftwater rescue, and risk awareness and aversion, etc... that craft is not something I think of as generally safe in any moving water (no matter the advertising hype).
At the current low flows of ~ 700 cfs, I personally wouldn't feel safe seeing someone use that craft of the lower Yuba (because I would potentially have to risk my safety to save them). At higher flows, bad things happen quicker, with higher consequences, to crafts like the Watermaster (it should be called the "Flatwater Master").
Granted, I have years of whitewater experience, and years of swiftwater rescue training and SAR training, so I'm a bit jaded due to pulling dead people out of fairly innocuous looking water.
People do use that type of craft on lots of moving water (Lower Yuba, Lower Sac, Lower American) and they catch fish, have a great time, but they typically have no recognition of the risks they are taking.
If you want to take any craft into moving water, I strongly advocate you take a swiftwater rescue class... it will scare the hell out of most people, while at the same time giving them a solid frame of reference on how to calculate risk and deal with simple to complex rescue situations. If you need that training and don't have it, at best your day is gonna suck and be expensive.
https://sierrarescue.com/course-info...escue-courses/
Happy to take you out on a safe craft on the lower Yuba or elsewhere if our schedule can connect.
John
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