Mike, it's going to happen to all of us sooner or later, if you aren't capsizing once in a while, you are not pushing hard enough. So, lessons learned, next time it will be very easy to right it and cary on. I have set my own personal best time for righting, less than 1 minute. I was out here at my house practicing a few weeks ago, got my feet crossed up in the sheets while gybing in good wind with the spin up, the boat rounded up and I couldn't reach the mainsheet from where I was, so over I went. Luckily the boat turned itself so the mast was upwind, while I was on the low hull snuffing the spin. as soon as the spin was snuffed, I grabbed the righting line, hooked it into my trap harnes and flopped backwards. The mainsheet was still cleated! BUT, the sudden snap of me flopping back on the righting line got the mast tip up just enough that the wind got under it and whamo, it came up fast!

Almost too fast, as it nearly went over the other way! But I was able to scramble aboard over the front beam while it was trying to run me over on a broad reach, main trimmed in! Anyway, as soon as I got it pointed back downwind I re-launched the spin to dry it out and continued on.

Great fun as long as the water is warm!

And to all the Viper guys out there, I did not mean anything derogotory by my earlier comment about the Viper wt. Truth is, we don't know what any of our boats weigh. I think the Viper is a good boat, well built and strong. I can understand why AHPC uses the F18 parts on it, to keep costs down. And, both our masts are the same so it should be about the same to right either boat.