PS number 2

20 knots on a cat is survival, 25 crazy, 30, call the USCG


I was on my friends C&C24 in an evening race on Lake Murray last year when we were caught in 35-40 mph winds, and we barely made it. This on a big boat, sails secure, bare pole, 3 hp motor working fine, just cant keep it in the water to push us. We drug(wellreally it skipped across the top of the water) a 20 pound Danforth anchor, an some how on the 3rd thro it grabbed the bottom. We rode out the 15 minute squall we the Danforth locked, the motor running, and the boat 10 feet from the rocky shoreline that would have pummeled us had we ran aground.
My point is that 30 knots of wind is STUPID. 25 is asking for injury or breakage, and 20 knots is on the edge of control. Why risk it? No thrill is worth that.