On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 19:01:46 -0400, "Mac Donald"
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Afterwards, my wife mentioned that at one point, she felt cold wind
blowing on one shoulder and the sensation of hot wind as if from a
guiant hair dryer, on the other. I explained to her that she had just
been exactly in the middle of a wind shear.

Wind shear has vertical temperature gradients, not horizontal. If she had
experienced wind shear she would have noted wind of two greatly different
velocities (speed and direction) on each shoulder. I'd say it was menopause
if anything.


Based on general
experience, and also the fact that the boat got knocked flat with the
sails furled, I estimate the winds reached over 70 MPH.

Sounds like Jaxashby sailing with bare poles. So a 70 mph wind across a mast
and hull will knock it over? Maybe the waves knocked it over, but not the
wind. How did you get sideways to the wind?


Yes, LIS the Cape Horn of the Northern Hemisphere. Maybe that's why there
are no large ships in there, it is too dangerous.


You lose on all counts, dingbat.

See ya!