text: yes. other routing engines allow passing the fords, for example mapzen: http://www.openstreetmap.org/directions?engine=mapzen_foot&route=46.58221%2C12.00661%3B46.58009%2C12.00618#map=18/46.58115/12.00639 or brouter: http://brouter.de/brouter-web/#zoom=16&lat=46.58232&lon=12.0057&layer=OpenStreetMap&lonlats=12.006125,46.579896|12.006705,46.582713&nogos=&profile=hiking-beta&alternativeidx=0&format=geojson
  
  See also this ticket on graphhopper's github repository about fords: https://github.com/graphhopper/graphhopper/issues/71
  
  Please continue the discussion with the developers of geaphhopper (for example in the linked github ticket). Thanks!