Pitch poling is less frequent for me since dicovering the downwind safety valve. The upwind safety valve is to luff up or ease sheets and spill wind. The downwind safety valve is to bear off and reduce apparent wind. This is counter-intuitive and requires discipline. The inclination is to head up a little in that puff and get totally screwed.

Pitch-poling is less tramatic since rerigging my trapeze line. The dog-bone attaches to a short length of dacron line, which then goes through a fairlead on the bottom of the side-rail and located fairly far aft. The dacron line then attaches to a shock cord criss cross under the tramp and hence to the other side. As the unfortunate panic stricken sailor starts to hurl forward after stuffing the bow, the end of the dacron line stops in the fairlead, forward progress is stopped. If the boat continues to tip, you can unhook, step down on the main boom which is conveniently placed 2 or 3 ft above the water, start your righting procedure whatever, and walk calmly and dryly around to the lower hull passing forward of the fore cross-bar.

It's important to keep the mast from sinking and turn the bow into the wind. Both objectives are achieved by throwing a righting line over the high hull and leaning back. Walking way forward at this time buries the bow and the windage of the everything else turns the boat.

Doesn't this sound easy?

Regards
Chet