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In enclosed coastal conditions with a short fetch you are probably fine up to 35 knots: the waves will still be small.
I would be much more careful getting in a really good reef that would blade out my main. A sloppy reefed main that has a larger draft would be too powerful.
At 40 knots, I would take down the main and try to maintain some control with the small furled headsail. Or if the main reefed down well, I would furl up up the headsail. Either way, I would forget making any distance to windward.
I concur with the comment about weather. And I would watch the sky and my barometer.
Jack
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