Did anybody manage to retrieve the main sail on the water in heavy wind? I imagine it being very difficult to keep the boat head to the wind (heavy wind = high waves) sufficently. We can't furl the jib and the crew will be too busy to get the main down to hold the jib backwards.
A friend of mine tried doing this once, last time he ever saw that sail.
I imagine it is still lying at the bottom of our lake somewhere.
IMHO the best thing to do is to avoid really bad weather or be on the beach somewhere before it gets really bad.
