A couple of days later, we were just ghosting along in light winds. We were both down below out of the sun reading, when I got an eerie feeling. I ran up on deck and there but a few hundred yards from us was a water spout, the ocean’s equivalent of a tornado. I immediately turned the engine on and tried to get out of its way. However, it seemed to turn when ever I did until finally it veered off and went away. Later we learned that had it hit us, we probably would not have survived.