Those T-foil rudders saved your bacon !
I'm absolutely convinced of that.
Wouldn't want to do those kind of conditions on my Taipan. That bear away would have been like a whole 120 minute horror movie compressed into a mere 3 seconds.
Wouter
The bearaway was not the problem (would have been OK on the Inter 17 as well). Was the usual high-wind problem of a gust on top of a gust so you handle the first gust OK, but the 2nd one on top is just too much in one go and I just went dangling over the back !