I wish I had seen this before sending my last email, although I think much of it still applies. Robert Hall, thanks very much for sharing this experience with the rest of us. We all can learn a lot because of it and I am glad you are okay! Message: 5 Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2015 02:22:13 -0400 From: Robert Hall <bert.hall@bell.net> To: "For and about Montgomery Sailboats" <montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com> Subject: Re: M_Boats: Turning Turtle Message-ID: <BLU436-SMTP143919F4A8C35F89EBC0ACC8AAE0@phx.gbl> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="UTF-8"; reply-type=original Hello All, Thank you all for your comments, questions and good wishes.I was able to let go of the tiller, but not able to free the sheets as things happened so suddenly and forcefully. I did not fall onto the sail as it was well below the water by the time I freed my feet and swam,yes in a life jacket, to the stern. By that time the boat was completely upside down.Using the OB bracket I managed to boost myself onto the hull and lay alongside the keel to get my breath. Of course the drop keel had retracted into the shoal keel and stayed there till the boat was righted. Strangely while completely turtled the boat was quite level and stable in the water, probably because the sails were acting as a kind of keel. A passing boater stopped to help and I sent him to get members from my club. When the rescuers arrived I stayed on the hull and had these helpers tow me to deeper water and turn the bow of the M-15 towards the direction from which the wind was still blowing hard.One of the rescuers then joined me in the water and we righted the boat in two tries as one would a dinghy.Once right way up we got the sails down, furled in the case of the jib. By this time[one half hour after the incident] cold had set in and I got into a nearby cruiser to get warm and dry..Two people with buckets got some of the water out and my boat was towed to my club where members did a fantastic clean up and bail out job.Fortunately the water was sufficiently deep that even as I drifted awaiting rescue there was no damage to the mast or other standing rigging.That is as full an explanation as I can give,but you may be sure that my memory reflects what happened and I neither need nor want a photographic record. It is 0215 hours and I feel lucky to be able to write this account.