As Andy Burton alluded, the secret to gybing a headsail, particularly a large overlapping genoa, is to keep the tack close to the mast. You need to ease the old sheet while hauling in the new one keeping tension on both sheets. If you let the tack go forward, it may well wrap on the forestay.
I store Touche's anchor on the pulpit with the stock up and the shank down. If I don't keep the tack close to the mast, the genoa inevitably fouls on the anchor stock. :( Dennis C. Touche' 35-1 #83 Mandeville, LA
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