Originally Posted by
budly
When the wind over deck increased above around 28 kts(??) we would go to a 3.75 GS. I remember one time in the the Med we went to a 4.0 because we had 40 kts down the angle!
Never saw it myself, but I heard an FRS IP talk about recovering in so much wind the boat was actually backing down. Said he initially thought he was coming into the break from the wrong direction because the wake was in front of the bow.