Try 40+ gusting to 50+ knots. Balls of steel+DDW seem to be the consensus. And people were giving me **** for wanting reef points in a new TheMightyHobie18 main.
I don't know if reef points would help at all in that situation. If you're caught in that is one thing. Choosing to go out in that is entirely different. I would suspect in a white squall like that keeping the boat in one piece WITH the crew on it is first priority. Making forward progress against a lee shore or toward safe harbor is second. If it's DDW, then bare-pole makes the most sense, as you'll probably be going close to 8-10 knots anyway.
