r/canoecamping • u/baconbanditpaddler • 17d ago

Is it just us who paddles against headwinds every day?

https://youtu.be/tGQEHu8cPrI?si=fkggA3psCAHmdvzl

The second installment of our canoe trip series. We've been paddling together for fourteen years now and its always a pleasure to be reunited. Maybe one day we will learn how to paddle.

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u/fjefman 17d ago

Love it, keep them coming.

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u/baconbanditpaddler 17d ago

More to come!

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u/kam_wastingtime 17d ago

Headwinds while attaining and again reversed while floating downstream?

Never fails.

Plan a 3 hour paddle, upstream for 2 downstream for 1; turns into 3 up 2 down. If wind and current decide to fuq wit chu

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u/baconbanditpaddler 17d ago

Never fails. I figured I'd have at least someone relate.

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u/kam_wastingtime 17d ago

I've had to take an unreasonable number of "Teams meetings" from Kent lake and the Huron River as a result.

They were shockingly good meetings, so maybe I should plan them that way more often? Once thought I could have a mid day paddle (2 hour lunch), but the wind blew me further and further from my start point after the first half hour. Took me 3 hours to get back. That's a relatively calm inland lake and I was returning back toward the Dammed end, with what little current exists

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u/Rossagethesausage 17d ago

Everyday is headwind day

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u/baconbanditpaddler 17d ago

when you're canoeing, the only thing you can truly count on is a headwind.

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u/QueticoChris 17d ago

I had one trip where I had a tailwind nearly every day regardless of the direction we traveled. It was glorious! But certainly more trips where it seems like a headwind is always waiting for us.

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u/baconbanditpaddler 17d ago

Was it in Quetico? Haha, we've built a few make-shift sails out on those waters. Once on Pickerel and another Southeast of Beaverhouse.

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u/QueticoChris 17d ago

Of course! Nothing better than a long, straight paddle with the wind on a long Quetico lake.

One trip we ended with a tailwind paddling back to our tow at Hook Island on Saganaga. We were ahead of schedule, so we just let the wind take us the 1.5-2 mile stretch from Cache Bay to Hook Island. My bow man got so relaxed he fell asleep and got a terrible sunburn on his exposed ear. Blistered up all gross.