one of the things I had to learn right away was how best to steer around squalls -- in the bay area, we simply don't get squalls, or at least extremely rarely, so I'd never encountered one from a boat before!
it was amazing the difference in wind between clear sky and squall -- i got us too close to one our first night out and it literally pulled the wheel out of my hands, forcing us into a tack (David was able to get the boat back on course, since he's stronger than me, but not before we got some lovely rain in the face) -- but often we could guage how fast & which direction the cloud was moving and either cross in front of it or pass behind it.
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