Well, from a fore-reaching trim it should be easy to "get going" again. if you appear to have "over compensated." Sort of re-zero the meter. I just wonder how many folks, two-handed crews, have the boat ready for such conditions to come up in maybe only 15-20 min. There's likely going to be some wretched, perhaps violent, motions with stuff below flying about, initially.
I'm not sure this helps but last time I was hove to for a few hours was out on the Gulf of Maine with just my daughter and I on an overnight to Cape Cod from Penobscot Bay.
I had anticipated that we may need to, so we were running downwind under deeply reefed main alone as we had furled the roller furling jib and dropped the mizzen when our boat speed became to much due to gusts in the high 30's. Had we had more crew, we might have been running under a small piece of headsail. But we became exhausted after covering 80 nm in 10 hours. The down wind steering on the seas that the following winds had built was tough work.
The worst part I was anticipating (sort of what you're saying), was the moment I had to bring the bow 180 degrees between the rollers traveling with us.
I was thankful that my daughter could be inside the companionway, next to the mainsheet winch mounted on the house, and do the work of pulling in yards and yards of mainsheet. I heard that winch scream like it never had before as I, behind the wheel, spun it for all I was worth.
It happened faster than I expected and we were hove to in a matter of seconds.
If it helps, we didn't travel more than than 6-8 nm (DDW) while dozing below for 3 hours. At some points I noticed (on the GPS below) the boat did a little fore reaching as well but I could adjust the wheel to stay hove to. The important thing was the bow was into the waves enough to keep it quartering over the crests.
Those three hours of rest saved us and also allowed the blow to calm down. Going from hove to (or fore-reaching) to falling off is easy then because you've got the deep reef. Fall off on the same tack and let out a little foresail and you're on your way.