"I still wonder what piece of equipment gave me the scratches on the photo attached.."
Rolf, try checking under your crewmember`s fingernails for traces of your skin - he mighta done that you you while trying to grab at something (ANYTHING !) while on his trajectory path.
In answer to someone else, I`m an ex-H16 crew, pitchpoling happened less often than you`d like to imagine, the crew is in charge on the H16, if you throw the jib away quickly enough you can save it. Having said that, I stopped counting at 13 big pitchpoles in one day of sailing ....
Was blowing 48 gusting to 55 .... knots. 3 boats went out sailing, 2 came back.
