S/V Roshambo, Stuart, Florida

This story deserves its own post even if there are other things to be posted tonight.

Ok so, we're headed out gonna try to make it to lake worth inlet today. It's beautiful and the forecast says southeast wind 5 to 10 then 5 knots after midnight, we roll out of here at about 3 pm as we head south wind picked up I start marking 14 knots on the anemometer, call the fuel dock and tell them were heading their way, as I get closer to the bridge I start marking about 20 knots, no worries its southeast i'll be headed strait into it when docking, just before i turn into the channel for the fuel do the wind switches direction 90 degrees, i found that odd and started to think about bailing, but I decide to go ahead and get her fueled and get off shore, I pass the second set of markers in the narrow little channel and mark 55 knot winds INSTANTLY coming right over the starboard beam, all my canvas blows in ripped the snaps right out, i throw the wheel right and run the throttle all the way up she whipped around and we're taking 55 off the port side, no longer can see the markers, follow my trail back out to the channel and hauled ass back north to get our anchor down before it passes over one more time.