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A capsize to windward while heading upwind will not result in the boat taking off on its own. Best to make sure the mainsheet is running free, and maybe uncleat the vang too if you can.
Now a deathroll while headed down wind, it is easy to get separated from your boat. That might be a time to hang on to the mainsheet.
I think the only situation in which you want or need to hang on to the sheet is a downwind capsize or deathroll - you can end up a short distance from the boat when this happens. When you're sailing on a reach or upwind, a capsize is much less chaotic + you'll end up in the water within arms-length of the capsized boat. If you went into the water between the boom + the leeward deck, swim around to the back/bottom side + grab the daggerboard. No need to keep hold of the sheet at all in this situation. Get a hand on the daggerboard, + often it's helpful for me to put my toes on the rail that's in the water. Then grab the upper rail when you can reach it, and keep "climbing" + righting the boat ... they both happen at the same time.... I should hold on to main sheet until I'm in the water...
I've never had that problem. As I'm "climbing" + the boat comes upright, I almost always end up laying with my chest on the side deck of the boat, arms holding that handrail in the cockpit, and legs still in the water. In that position the boat can't/won't get away from you. But depending on the angle of the boat+sail to the wind, it might start heading up, tack thru the wind, or start capsizing again (either away from you-the same way it went the first time, or towards you). So the first thing I do is catch a hold of the tiller, to be able to steer a little, and prevent the boat getting on a bad heading, as I climb the rest of the way in.... concerned that once the boat was up, but I was not yet in it, that it might get away from me. Is that ever a problem?