"DSK" wrote

Bart Senior wrote:
Good point. Putting a reef in would be a big help.
Tensioning the clue reef line, would help support the mast.

Agreed, and I didn't think of it, but I hope I would if it was really
happening... when you look up at the sail, you see these things and might
get the idea.

I'm sure you wound. It happened to me once on a J-24. I
reached up and clapped on the reef line and put all my weight
on it. It tensioned up nicely. We dropped the main rather quickly
after that.