I once tried tacking against the wind through a gap between two lakes that acted like a funnel. The funnel effect created such strong waves that I couldn't get

I once tried tacking against the wind through a gap between two lakes that acted like a funnel. The funnel effect created such strong waves that I couldn't get my boat to turn into the wind. Eventually I gave up and tried it on the motor, but it was too weak to power against the waves and the wind. So what I ended up doing was sailing, tacking, but using the motor to force the boat through the wind for the tack. That worked, but it was one of the weirder hacks I've done in sailing. (My English sailing terminology might be incorrect; I'm Dutch, and sailing terminology is the only area of language that I only know in Dutch.)