On a Grand Canyon trip many years ago (wow, like almost 20!!!) there was
such a headwind one day in Marble Canyon that I rowed with all my strength
for several hours and only gained about 200 yards of river. A big part of
the problem was that the wind kept blowing me into the shoreline eddys and
I would get washed back to the top of the stretch I had just rowed. After
about an hour, I was so exhausted that I let one of the clients try to
row. He got us blown back UPSTREAM from where we had started, and I had to
regain his ground as well as my own. We stopped and made lunch less than 2
miles from where we spent the night before. It was the second hardest day
ever on a river....

--riverman

hi riverman, paddlers,

just when you thought your hear it all!

we ww paddlers tend to think ww is tougher than sea, but wind does make sea
conditions as tough as any ww. i've been brought to a halt in my 19'
racing sea kayak by winds and surfed unexpected, large waves on "fla****er".
infact, that why I think "fla****er" is a misnomer and "sea" is a better
term for non-ww.

al k