I am a newbie sailor and was out today on the sea with my hobie wave in 18-20Knots of wind. Suddenly, I see a low cloud full of rain coming toward me at pretty high speed and I did not have time to turn back and beach the boat as I was too far. As I thought the conditions would overwhelm me, I put the boat in safety position and let the big cloud pass over me. Wind picked up quite a lot while the cloud was over me and the waves were also pretty big. I managed to maintain the boat in safe position and after 5 minutes everything was back to normal and I kept sailing and enjoying for another hour
I am wondering if what I did can be considered right or it's actually more dangerous then trying to keep sailing.
Thanks