Sybarite
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People tend to think of the Med as having blues seas and blue skies.
This video shows a yacht skipper relating his experience of 100 + knots off Corsica on August 18.
The normal wind projection sites gave no indication of anything exceptional apart from one which predicted the 100 knots. It was so far away from the other predictions that the skipper thought it an anomaly.
He was on a 41' Contest with wife, daughter and 91yo FIL.
It's in French but I think the drama will be obvious.
PS Some years ago in August we were holed up in Bonifacio when winds of up to 87 knots were experienced.
This video shows a yacht skipper relating his experience of 100 + knots off Corsica on August 18.
The normal wind projection sites gave no indication of anything exceptional apart from one which predicted the 100 knots. It was so far away from the other predictions that the skipper thought it an anomaly.
He was on a 41' Contest with wife, daughter and 91yo FIL.
It's in French but I think the drama will be obvious.
PS Some years ago in August we were holed up in Bonifacio when winds of up to 87 knots were experienced.
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