High winds in Boston

Sunday was a windy and gusty day. We sailed out past the Graves under a reefed 90% headsail and reefed main. At times our speed over water indicator was showing speeds of 9.4 knots. We assume a little mis-calibration, but it felt like we were flying. As we were coming back into Boston we needed to furl the headsail entirely and at times there were periods where we were sailing under reefed mainsail only. Winds were 35 knots constant and gusting up. We had an exciting moment when the electronics on the whole boat went out! Good thing was there was no panic and we went back to the basics - paper charts. Of course we know the harbor well, but it was a good trial for a similar experience in distant waters. I have heard people say that there are things that are guaranteed with sailing, one of them being - "you will lose your electronics, be prepared". We think we lost the electronics because of a lot of use of the electronic winch on the mainsail. We will be more cautious in the future.

Here are some shots as we were sailing on a reefed main and reefed 90% genoa as we were passing the Graves. At this point we were sailing with 25kts of sustained winds.