Unusual for us too. We left Canada with a nice NE breeze and jib(yankee) alone. The winds built and were coming over the port quarter. You have to see 8-footers only three seconds apart to appreciate how that makes a 20000# boat roll. True, there was a better point of sail but it would have taken us way off course. Besides, not every day do you get to sail at 9 knots.
