Being drug by the boat is most certainly an issue. I've been towed by my F18 for 100 or more yards while I hung behind, in the water, onto the WINDWARD rudder trying to either get hold of something to climb onto the boat with or turn the boat windward relentlessly. Finally coming to grip with the reality that I was not going to accomplish anything other than dangerously exhausting myself, I finally let go next to the committee boat that I had just narrowly avoided. I opened a bottle of water somebody handed me, had a sip, and wrestled with the site of my boat screaming across Charleston harbor unattended for another 200 to 300 yards before it finally jibed and capsized. I would NOT have wanted to be tethered to that boat under any circumstance.

BTW, preceding this incident was a capsize where my crew fractured two ribs and I urgently righted the boat to get back to him. Sometime during or before righting the boat, the tiller bar flipped backwards over one rudder and stayed correct over the other so when I tried to turn one rudder, the other rudder went in the opposing direction. I kept trying to flip the bar back over but it was impossible while trying to hang on to the boat while it zizzed through the water. My point is, being dragged through (and under) the water is a distinct possibility.