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    Posted: 05 Dec 14 at 6:57pm
Believe me, I really don't like to swim but...



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+1 better than snidey comments from people who don't contribute, or pictures of garabadis!
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Agree.
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Originally posted by Chris 249

Originally posted by alstorer

I can heartily recommend not falling boot, head or hand first onto the window in the mainsail.

I can recommend it too. The worst time was when I had met a brilliant sailing-mad woman and we went out sailing on her high-performance cat about the fifth time we met. I went through her main when we tipped it in.

Oh, the anguished feelings of going foot-first through the expensive mainsail of the woman you are trying to impress. It's amazing how one can feel emotions with such clarity and depth when you're four feet under and going fast through mylar.....

Oh, the joyous feelings when, through the bubbles of shame, you see her going through the same hole half a second later, and realise that you don't have to take all the blame......

A dozen years later, we now have a cat with a tougher main, and she's gone through my Tasar's training mainsail so we're all square.



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Originally posted by JimC

But don't think catching the boom to protect the main is any better unless you fancy sailing in without a gooseneck.

me first, boat second.... I'd pick the sail over the boom too.  
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Originally posted by JimC

But don't think catching the boom to protect the main is any better unless you fancy sailing in without a gooseneck.

In both cases sailing in will be difficult, but I would expect the gooseneck to be less hassle and cost to repair.

In the end, I agree with Al: accept your fate and dive in.
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But don't think catching the boom to protect the main is any better unless you fancy sailing in without a gooseneck.
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Originally posted by alstorer

 I can heartily recommend not falling boot, head or hand first onto the window in the mainsail.

Knee first is a bad idea as well, I've discovered. And just about any part of the mainsail will do. :-/
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Re: photo from alstorer.
 
That looks like the B14 Worlds at Falmouth. I was in a safety boat with two photographers following the tangerine boat and it was the most spectacular capsize I have ever seen. They were hit by a massive gust. When they came ashore they were badly bruised but smiling about it.
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