Was stuck in the office listening to the wind belting around the windows - checked the wind graphs and saw +45knots on the Port Phillip windmeters with not super-huge gusts.
If you could hold down a sail and have some semblance of control in those conditions, you'd think doing 50 knots plus should be a cakewalk?
Would have to have been the best conditions (wind-strength-wise) for it this speed-sailing season?
Mind you, when I looked at the graphs it was mainly northerly to NE'erly which isn't exactly the desired direction for Sandy.
But just that wind-strength alone! If you could deal with that and somehow handle the chop or perhaps slip along the northern edge of the channel... who knows!
Coulda, woulda, shoulda.
