In the med you have to watch the weather realy closely as even the locals get it wrong. When we left Gibralter the weather gave force 4NE at Tarifa point a place known well by the locals as dangerous for the winds. A local fisherman told us to double the forcasted wind and be ready for a wind shift. We approached Tarifa Point with 1 reef in the main and 2/3 of the geny out doing 6 knots in a NE4-5 . At Tarifa Point we got a shift to NW and up to 7 with gusts at 47 knots but no probs and we were past the point in no time at all at 9.5 knots and heading for the bay of cadiz and Portugal.
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