Turning Turtle

Hi All,
This past weekend I singlehanded seabass in 25mph of wind with 4 foot chop and had something happen that i've never dealt with before. At 1 point I was reaching with the swells hitting directly against my windward hulls when all of a sudden she decides I need to get wet. almost as soom as she flipped she went 90% turtle with the former windward hull sitting about 1 foot off the water! the only thing that stopped her from going all the way was her mast hitting the bottom (clay stuck to it when I derigged her). I've flipped her many times before and have never seen this happen. I spent a lot of time making sure my mast was watertight during my winter project so I don't really think water in the mast was the problem. Furthermore, I was able to get her righted by myself so I think boyancy created from air in the mast had to help me. What i'm wondering is did wind blowing directly against the bottom of my tramp once she was capsized push her over into a turtle? Any other reasons this happened? What can I do to avoid this? Btw, I do have a mesh tramp.

Any help is greatly appreciated

Cory

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82 named SeaBass

Sounds like a wind induced turtle to me. It's happened to me, too, but under the high wind circumstances, I didn't mind because I was able to pull the mast up into the wind and easily right her. This happened years ago when i had a vinyl tramp so I don't know if a mesh one would have made any difference.

It was a really windy day and I didn't have any trouble righting her. Should I just not worry about it?

thanks,
cory

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82 named SeaBass

Yep, don't worry about it, unless the water depth is less than the length of the mast. Sounds like you got lucky your mast didn't get so badly stuck in the mud to require a tow from another boat to dislodge it.