Hey Dave..good question posted. Some of the responses are interesting. From my experience I would like to add something. Besides checking your side stay cables (around the crimp area!) make sure you check the trapeze crimps. Whilst double trapezing offshore in a race, my trapeze cable snapped at the crimp right below the handle. This put me in the water so quick I had no idea what had happened (thought my harness had broken). I resurfaced to watch the boat, still skimming the surface with my girlfriend out on the wire. She got the boat under control at put it into irons…but the 50m swim was the worst I have ever done…I could just hear the theme song from Jaws getting louder and louder as I swam back to the boat.

With regards to tieing yourself to the boat..if you’re going to try that..maybe have some sorte of quick release system on that??
I personally will be holding onto the mainsheet next time which could capsize the boat..but rather that than swimming to the da-dum-da-dum-DA-DUM
Clint