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Originally Posted by djstone
I would love to hear others McGyver stories of how they solved a problem they encountered while out paddling with the gear they had on board.
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Not sure if this qualifies as a “McGyver story,” but on a French Creek trip a number of years ago the sustained winds were some of the strongest I’d ever experienced in my canoe. The wind was bad enough on French Creek, and I was dreading how much worse it was likely to be when we hit the Allegheny River to paddle to the take out in Franklin. When we reached the wide open waters of the Allegheny, the head wind was worse. It forced me to tack back and forth across the river several times, the way a sailor sails into the wind rather than trying to paddle directly into the teeth of the wind. So while I didn’t have to use a piece of equipment in a way it wasn’t intended, the conditions forced an adaptation. I don’t recall how others on the trip handled the situation.