stay sail and a single reef. I expect that it will work the same with a double reef and a reef in the stay sail when the wind picks up past some point. As it is, I have never had to heave-to in anything much over 30. I suppose that's a good thing... I much prefer to keep moving if I can. I thought about heaving-to once when the seas got so high that I was so deep the trough that I lost the wind and Monitor stopped working. I decided to let out 200 feet of line in a big loop to drag the stern back in line when the wind went away and kept going. I wonder how she would have handled that kind od a hove-to situation? 40 knots the top and nothing and no wind the bottom. I think it would have been an ugly ride.