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Re: Waterspouts.
From: Peter Fogg
Date: 2003 Sep 18, 14:47 +1000
From: Peter Fogg
Date: 2003 Sep 18, 14:47 +1000
----- Original Message ----- From: "George Huxtable" . > > These raise a few question. Have mariners, (perhaps Nav-L members, even) in > large vessels or small, passed through the eye of a waterspout? What's it > like in there? Can sails or rigging survive if not furled in time? Do > published accounts exist? One of the yachts sailing in a recent Sydney to Hobart race had a close encounter with a waterspout. They saw it coming and got the sails down before it hit them and only sustained slight damage. Then they re-hoisted sail and continued.
