Harry Krause wrote:

Yes, well, the problem wasn't in knowing before we left the dock, but
that while we were "out in it," the WX robot was telling us how nice it
was, and continued to tell us how nice it was all the hours we were out.

Understood.

Because you reported:

"soon as we cleared the jetty, a
strong north wind blew up. A few minutes later, we were rocking and
rolling in breaking four to six footers."

I thought my comment about comparing your local barometer to the
weather robot to see if you could expect the conditions the robot was
reporting was probably sound.

In any event, weather is always interesting because it is only
"somewhat" predictible.