As someone posted, every situation is different.
Unlike another poster, however, I would NEVER play a CD in a storm: I feel I need to use all of my senses to figure out what's going on, and "going deaf" robs of of needed info to maintain my vessel's safety.
Having done 6 transAtlantics and one trans Pacific, along with dozens of trips to/from the Caribbean to/from NOrth America, in a variety of vessels from a 33' mono to a 68' three-master square-rigged engineless ship, to various high-performace cats and tris, I will NEVER go offshore in a multihull for more than the duration of a weather forecast without a good sea anchor. (I wrote the article in the Multihull data book on using a storm anchor in a Farrier tri). I don't tug on Superman's cape, I don't piss into the wind, and I don't go offshore without a parachute.
-Steve