Heading out into a F7 Gale

Well Ricky would rather puke his guts out than spend another day in Vilamoura. I'd done the research and wind indication for our course and timing looked remotely doable. Everything in the 20 to 25 knot range if the depression did not stray from it's forcasted path. Hopefully we would manage to duck the worst of it. Off we headed into a moderate gale!