wrote:

Boat is overpowered in a gust:
http://i1.ebayimg.com/05/i/000/8f/19/843e_1.JPG

Spinnaker flogging, boom dragging in the water and cannot be eased
further.

In the pic, the boat is still moving forward but very soon the foils
will stall and she will be uncontrollable. The skipper has a few
seconds to take action or they will capsize. What should he do?

As a bonus question, what is different about the boat in the pic from
most conventional sloops that might affect the skipper's range of
successful options?

Fresh Breezes- Doug King


Letting out the jib sheet might ease the heeling somewhat, perhaps long
enough to permit him to use the tiller to head up. What's different is
that the jib itself has some sort of boom, which would tend to restrict
any attempt to merely let the jib fly.

Jim