[donhaller]

Yup, sounds familiar. I had a friend at the helm while I carefully inched to the foredeck to drop the jib (hank on foresail). With it dropped and lashed I came back and grabbed on the mast tightly and let the mainsail down. I just happened to have a coil of line handy lashed to the boom which I used to quickly lash the main to the boom. We had some water over the bow and rails but mostly just spray. In retrospect it could have been a lot worse than it was, but I think for my virgin sail I was just a little nervous. I think with a few more of those under my belt I'll be more confident.

The most heel I saw on the "pucker meter" was 30 degrees, but my friend Mark said he saw 35. We figured anything beyond 35 or 40 should be notated on the Clinometer as "YF" meaning "Your ______ (expletive)".