I was just wondering if anyone else has had this happen righting a mossie [or any other cat].
We had a very windy day at Normanville yesterday which kept some regulars away but we did have 3 mossies [Mk1] 1 x Yvonne, 1 x Stingray, 3 x Windrush and a couple of Sabres. I capsized on the third lap at the gybe mark in a gust,swam to the inverted boat, uncleated the mainsheet, swam the boat into the breeze and pulled it up. I have a righting rope which runs to each side exiting through a fairlead below the front beam and above the jumper strap and is tensioned with a bungy cord.The righting rope runs through a tieball which you "clip" under your harness hook then use your body weight to right the boat. Attempting to climb back onto the tramp it became apparent that the tieball was jammed in the harness hook preventing me from climbing back on board, pinning me to the front beam on a rapidly accelerating boat [the tiller extension had gone underneath the port tiller arm locking the steering straight]The water pressure was trying to pull me under the boat.At the fourth attempt a got a hand to the port sidestay and was able to get back on the tramp where it still took a couple of attempts to free the righting rope from the harness and put the boat back under control.I have never had this issue before [ I have had my share of capsizes] but it was turning nasty quite quickly. I checked out the system today and everything runs freely but I shall definitely be putting larger tieballs onto the ends of the righting rope,
Cheers,
Roy,
If I had gone under the boat the next option would be to undo the harness.