Hello,
There is some great info in this thread.
How you flip is something to consider. If you go over sideways, it is pretty easy to point the bows or mast tip into the wind. Just the body weight of the crew positioned jusright is enough. i like to get every one in the water right away at the bow and swim that bugger around untill the wind holds the mast up. This is esspecially true if the capsize was an endo. the mast ends up facing downwind. Don't let anyone hang on up top. that drives the mast under water if the mast is facing downwind.
Bows to the wind is fairly unstable whilst drifting on your side because it could shift back to mast downwind with just a few degree change in configuration. If you can pull it back up that way, doit. I do mast to wind and keep a person in the water at the front beam holding on to the hull. If it's windy enough you don't even need a righting line. Just pull the dolfin spike and be ready to hold down what used to be the low hull after the sail catches the wind.
the boat should round up if everything was freed up before you rerighted. Get back up on the boat right away in front of the front beam.
The righting pole is a really cool invention, and i am dumbfounded that it took so long for someone to think of it. If you tip over in light wind, say from a trap hook breaking on a solo, you can reright with the pole.
If you can some how deploy a sea anchor from the bow, and somehow get the main up out of the water without it being full of water, and somehow get it to pop with the camber facing up, then boat would practicly self-right if it was windy enough. You would then need to stow the seaanchor. Sounds time consuming and maybe impossible to get the sail to pop the wrong way like that and get it to stay way in anything but a perfectly calm sea.
It is a good idea to carry a regular anchor in case you break down near a jagged shoreline, or to hold your ground in a strong current.
i think is really important to swim the bows around as soon as you flip. it can't turtle with the mast to wind, and i don't like testing the mast seal at sea.