Many years ago when racing a Prindle 16 a sailor named Jim Pate taught me a very good trick. We had gone over during a race (not a pitchpole) to the weather mark. He instructed me to help him turn the boat to a turtle position and continue to right the boat, actually doing a 360. The result was when the boat was righted we were going in the proper direction on the same tack as before the flip and did not lose as much time or distance as we would have if we turned the boat while it was on its side into the wind to right and then tack or gybe to head back toward the weather mark. I was surprised how easy and quick this worked. Not sure if it would work with the newer high tech cats. We were in the Pacific Ocean so we had plenty of water to accomplish this.