Was there time to run an anchor out? I don't really know anything else that would help when you've gone onto a lee shore. If there's any time at all left at that point, it's not much.

What options where available to the sailor? Crash, bang, think, think...... You have no time left, what's your plan?

Do you have a dinghy to take an anchor out? Can you row it? Do you need to mount a motor that's not on it? Do you decide to do that if you're alone, or do you need crew?

I think that's your only hope at that point. Can you bring the dinghy alongside the bow, drop the anchor into it, get in and start rowing the rode out, all of it, as fast as you could to windward? There's nothing like adrenalin to help you do that. You have topography on your side setting the anchor in deeper water for a secure set.

Get back to the boat and start taking up the rode with the windlass or a sheet winch as fast as you can. A taught anchor rode is something that can help a boat on a lee shore, especially on a rising tide. Done quickly on a lowering tide, maybe(if very quickly)

When these things happen, you don't have any time, you just act then, or not.

What can you do? What would you do?