Just had my first turtling experience on my Mod 1 Capri 14.2

We were out on a small lake here in Washington in 10-15knots flying just the mainsail and hot blasted with a gust(maybe ~20-25kts) and me and my wife got catapulted over. Happened so fast that I couldn’t ease the sheet like I had been doing in gusts. The boat was completely turtled by the time I got my head above water. Me and her spent ~30 mins or more and couldn’t get the boat to pivot the mast out of the water. It took 3 people with someone lifting the mast. My then the hatch had let in...

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