If you've got time to use the geronimo line, don't you have time to plan your departure gracefully? As in intentionally landing in the space between the tramp and the boom? I thought that it was the flying trapeze tricks that lands one in the sails.
As was recently noted, many of us are on the busy end of the learning curve. All my capsizes have been downwind, yet not of the violent catapult launch variety. The bow design is an improvement but not a cure-all. The bows still dive but the boat doesn't do the quick somersault. So I have been left dangling holding onto the rear beam until things go past vertical. The boat is now oriented so that when I let go I am headed for the mast. Not much of a gap there so perhaps I see where you are going.
In this specific instance, it did happen very slowly, giving me time to climb out over the stern! Bad move! I almost prevented the capsize. . . almost! The forward motion stopped all together, but I lost my grip when I went past verticle. I think my weight forced the bows further in than normal. In any case I fell backward into the main, stiking the luff at the mast, causing the damage (see attached). Had I been able to slow my fall, there may not have been any damage at all. I probably would have landed feet first, rather than on my head and shoulders,( go ahead and laugh, it must have looked hilarious <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> ) and been able to pick my spot.
In future, I have no intention of trying to stop the capsize. Once the sterns start to lift, I'm just gonna be along for the ride.
The long-term goal is to get control of the boat and have no capsize at all! Or only rarely!
While I'm at it, how do you guys execute a jibe under spinnaker? In this latest debacle, I picked a calm moment, absent any of the larger waves. Put the helm over to a dead down wind position, let go the spin sheet, and started to move the tiller around the blocks. At this point the boat was moving slowly, I heard the spin flog and the sterns immediately lifted. Then the chaos.
