How windy is too windy

You can’t prevent adults entering whilst still holding the race.

I have a carabina on my harness and hook the fall of the mainsheet through it when sailing the Spice solo, it's mainly to prevent me dropping the sheet when trapezing but would also tether me to the boat in a capsize. I may do similar in the Blaze when sailing unaccompanied in future. 

Originally posted by 423zero Ankle, you aren't throwing yourself about like you would in a race.

On the sea it's much better to have a Marine VHF and the knowledge to use it correctly. Mobiles often don't have a reliable signal in many places and they can only track your position to the nearest phone mast (which certainly won't be 2 miles out into the Irish sea). The local coastguard monitor Ch16 24/7 and can find you using RDF triangulation if you can't give them an accurate position. 

You don't sail off the North Wales coast then   plenty of places on shore with no mobile signal around here never mind out on the oggin.