[quote=pomalley]20 is sort of the redline for us (Hobie 18 magnum). Usually (though not always) on Barnegat Bay in the summer the 20+ wind is south to SSW, which is longitudinal and makes for a long fetch, so we get big rollers coming up the bay which drive the power boats (and even the cowards on big monohulls that can stand up to a lot more) into the coves, giving us wide open spaces for nice 2 mile reaches across the wind. The problems is that at 20+, things happen fast, and things can break, so once it gets much over that we tend to take a few runs and quit while we're ahead.
The worst incident we had was on Rehoboth Bay in Delaware on a Hobie 16 in what must have been 25-30, when we must have hit something in the water and one rudder assembly got pulled out of the transom. That was our last day out for that trip![/quote]
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