Postscript to sails

I told you yesterday how important it is to have the correct sails up for the wind conditions, as I posted that blog we were sailing in 8 knots of wind, with our code 1 spinnaker up (it can handle winds up to about 15 knots), within a matter of seconds another squall arrived, the wind gusted to 30 knots and as we were massively over sailed the boat heeled over far too much, It was quite scary how far we went! Having quickly got the sail down we were on our way again. This is all part of sailing into the InterTropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ); 'the doldrums,' in another 12 hours we will be right into them.