A Wind Event On October 11, 2008 our wind instruments registered 48 knots (57.5 mph, 92.6 kmph) - the highest wind we've been in to date. We were anchored in Scotland Bay as we watched the storm approach for an hour or so. Contrary to the trade winds usual easterly direction the storm approached from the south-west (our anchorage's only vulnerable opening to the Paria gulf). Barry had our diesel disabled that day as he was installing a new refrigerator compressor. He scrambled to hastily put it back together as we saw the storm approach. Thankfully the engine started as we needed it to motor into the wind (to take some of the weight off of the anchor). We hastily grabbed our sun awnings off deck and stowed them below before we endured 30 minutes of gale (force 10) winds. We could see the wind gusts approaching as they lifted the sea into a white wall of spray. An hour before the on-slaught we dropped a 2nd anchor. Our friends on Ngoma were not quite so lucky and we watched them drag across the bay towards us during the storm. Two days afterwards we watched "Omar" develop out of the storms (eventually to a Category 4 hurricane); north and west of us. I was baking bread that morning and had just taken the loaves out of the oven. They sat cooling on the baking sheet in a bed of cornmeal. In our frenzy to secure the ship we neglected to close the hatch directly over the galley. Sea Star safely held her own through the storm but unfortunately the wind lifted the cornmeal and the spray stuck it everywhere below. While the swells rolled in for a few hours afterwards we had a big mess to clean up but a good laugh as well.