Arto are you thinking of a water spout? we get these in Miami a lot - I have only seeing one while sailing my CAL39 - and it was very intimidating - a Uturn was my best evasive motion at the time
--- In harryproa@yahoogroups.com.au, Arto Hakkarainen <ahakkara@...> wrote:
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