Some advice from more experienced sailors please.
Last Saturday in planing conditions, sailing downwind, I gybed; the mainsheet got caught round the aft corner, a gust hit, and my boat screwed round seemingly uncontrollably onto a reach and straight into the side of another boat...
I know there's plenty been said about how to prevent the mainsheet getting caught like this, but what's the best thing to to do once it has happened? I know about hooking the tiller extension under the sheet to free it, but there was no time for that. Is it an uncontrollable situation?
Last Saturday in planing conditions, sailing downwind, I gybed; the mainsheet got caught round the aft corner, a gust hit, and my boat screwed round seemingly uncontrollably onto a reach and straight into the side of another boat...
I know there's plenty been said about how to prevent the mainsheet getting caught like this, but what's the best thing to to do once it has happened? I know about hooking the tiller extension under the sheet to free it, but there was no time for that. Is it an uncontrollable situation?