Wind speed in the marina

Beaufort 8 - 'Gale'

The wind got up to 64knots, but it took a few moments for me to find the camera. Olivier got a picture of it nearly at the height.  I'm very glad we're holed up in a marina in Portugal rather than out on the Atlantic, with a predicted 3 metre swell and a confused sea because of the wind direction change.

If all goes well, we'll leave either late tonight or early in the morning when the wind will have dropped and the waves more manageable!