Bart Senior wrote:
You are sailing in gusty winter conditions, in an
area with only one other boat in the area. None
of your crew is wearing lifejackets. The boat is
heeling and waves are regularly breaking over
the bow.

After tacking you see the leeward jibsheet fouled
on the cleat located in a centeral position on the
foredeck.

What is the best way to clear it?


On out boat you can throw open the vberth hatch and unfoul it from
there but I'd make sure to pull the bedding and cushions off fiest
so that we didn't have to sleep in a wet mess....I'm wondering why
no one is wearing a life jacket in those conditions...with a
jackline system up you could also clip yourself off at the mast and
use a dockpole to flip the line off the cleat...