For somebody whit the sea as profession, that doesn’t look 30 knots at least not on the photo. The sea surface looks different at 30 knots.
And a small thing but important, it’s no good to speak about being out in +25 knots on a forum where people whit very different skills are reading the posts. There is no difference what craft you are sailing, when the wind gets up to 30 knots things change and everything gets more difficult. So at least my point of vu is that there is no need to give the Coast Guard more job than they have by announcing to unskilled sailors that it’s safe to take a craft out in 30 knots.