Yup waves are pretty much just bumps on the lake most of the time. This wasn't as dramatic as real waves in open water but surprising for our normal quick day sail routine. We went out knowing we would be testing ourselves so our eyes were wide open on the conditions and challenges. No other club boats where out and our sister C310 said he was not going out with the gusts since he had no crew.
My daughter was on helm and calling our tacks, watching our heading, depth and position, Dad was on sail handling. Our trim wasn't great and I really should have started with the jib reefed in. I also messed up and had the jib cars set to far forward initially on our first tack. Full sail under the gust we would spill the sails and my daughterwould pinch us up to depower. it was an exciting ride for us for sure and good that Mom did not come out. We never lost control or felt like she was going to round up. We did reef in the jib eventually and that did help.
I'm rethinking my jib sail replacement, the 135 isn't bad, but I keep thinking I might just get a 115 instead as that worked really well on our old O'Day 25 when I got that new sail with a new main. If wind is low we just deploy the code 0 so my thoughts on getting a new 115 seem to make sense on sail handling and less possible damage with overlap on the standing rigging.