"...or he did not know that you have to
point the mast into the wind to right it."

I believe that you point your hulls, not the mast, into the wind when beginning to right from a capsize. If the mast is into the wind, once she starts to right, the wind will catch the main and blow it right over onto the water on the other side. With the hulls into the wind the boat will be in irons once she comes back up.