What fun! Thank you for sharing.
Did you guys have an anenometer telling you it was 35 knots?
I've never sailed with a working instrument (they always seem to break...), so I've used the
Beaufort scale my whole sailing life. The video does not look anything like Force 8 to me, so it would be
funny if I have been way underestimating
wind speeds this whole time because I never had a
wind instrument to tell me for sure.
Do you guys know-- I've never considered it Force 8 until there's enough
water blowing off from the top of the sharper waves and from the little wavelets that it kind of streaks together. Can you have a steady 35 knots and not have even white crests on most of the little wavelets, does looking at the surface of the
water only
work with the
Beaufort scale if the wind has been constant for a while?