Forget the 45-180 and do a 270-90 into the wind.

Even better, do a 90-0-270 into the wind, where the 0 (continue straight ahead) lasts for 30 seconds or so (depending on the wind you are countering).
This will make up for the drift during the turns. You'll be turning a total of 360 degrees to make a U turn this way, for a total of two minutes.
With (say) a 30 knot crosswind, you'd drift one mile in that time. At 90 knots, you could recover that in 45 seconds. At 120 it would take half a
minute.

Jose
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