It was hard to see anything through the driving rain, I was concerned about the boats around me dragging in the heavy winds.  I had everything ready should we break loose from our mooring as I tried to monitor the boats around us.  I saw forty-five knots on the anemometer and suspect we had a couple of fifty knot gusts at the height, but I wasn’t watching.  The village ashore took a pounding, I could see lots of flashlights through the rain as the locals tended their houses and boats.