Water spouts?
The plan for today was to go out for a two and a half hour sail, come in, swap crew and go out for another two and a half hour sail. The wind was light, Bft 2-4, the weather was forecast as cloudy/sunny spells. We went out for a sail and everything was fine... till suddenly there is a gust and significant wind shift for about a minute then settled down again. Then another one, but this time we're suddenly knocked about 15-20 degrees... again the significant wind shift… when we'd moved all the crew to the weather side of the boat a few seconds later we're flat again. As I say the wind was light, about Bft 3 by this stage. The Kingfisher K20+ displaces about 1.5 tonnes and has about 500kg ballast. So we're a light boat. Then we notice a small spray ring moving across the sea at probably 10 knots. Wow... the start of a water spout. By the time we'd seen the third spray ring and another sudden gust/wind shift, I decided that maybe being out in a small light sail...