1. Pull on your long johns and read a book, or
2. Take the wife shopping,or
3. Find a nice waterfront bar, have beer and watch guys break their boats up.
I don't do heavy weather.
You might not want to enter any distance events then.
Certainly not on the Blade. The Tiki is another matter.
Out of curiosity, where do you draw the line? You do have a limit? Right?
Well, when the air and water is cold, and the wind is strong enough to where I know I'll be swimming and potentially hypothermic, I'll adopt the tikipete mode of heavy weather sailing. (See day 2 spring fever)
I'll usually draw the line at gusts past 30. At that point it stops being fun and stuff starts breaking.
However, if you're in a distance race, you'll often start in conditions drastically different than you end up in.
