So I left my house at 11:30 am yesterday hardly expecting much wind but maybe cruising around on my 8. and Bic Nova for hour and a half before a family gathering. It stormed yesterday morning. So as I'm rigging up the 8.0 white caps are forming from the south, so I abandon that and rig the 7.0 (all I brought). By the time that is rigged it is raging 25-30 at the crib full on 5.5-6.0 conditions, and I am helplessly overboarded and overpowered. Went out and back a few hundred yards a few times, hoped it would settle down. After an hour of wind it quiets down to non-sailable. Checking the wind plots it was good sailable wind for an hour, I was there, but not the right gear. It takes less than a minute for me to put one more board, sail, and mast inside the Ford Flex and I would have been set.

I feel your pain. Same happened a few times thinking that the smaller sails won’t be of any use and of course Mr. Weatherman had it all wrong again. Bummer.