Possible Clues:

• Strong westerly winds found in specific southern latitudes
• Clamouring for ropes in stormy ocean tracts
• Keen to keep old pro with matches where it's not plain sailing?
• Stormy waters, calling for knots
• Prepared for roistering around area where buffets are common
• Rains get ro-ro if off course here!
• Furiously demanding ropes, in these stormy waters
• Very successful, when in mid-life, weathering storms here?