[Rhodes22-list] The great lightning debate.

[Steve]

Excellent, Rummy.  I knew I had all my lighting
grounding done correctly:-)
Steve

--- R22RumRunner at aol.com wrote:

> For several years now, lightning has been a topic of
> great interest.  
> Obviously our needs vary depending on whether we are
> fresh or salt water  sailors. I 
> entered into a conversation with a gentleman at the
> oil quick change  place 
> about two weeks ago. The conversation got onto the
> topic of boating and he  told 
> me about the Catalina 27 he sold this summer. His
> boat had been at the  
> Western Carolina Sailing club for several years when
> about two years ago he  pulled 
> it out of the water for some maintenance and
> upgrades. One of the  upgrades 
> he did was to install lightning protection according
> to all the  information he 
> could find told him to do. Yep, you guessed it. His
> boat was the  only one to 
> be hit several months later during a storm. It
> didn't put a hole in  the 
> bottom, but fried everything electrical on the boat,
> including all the wires  on 
> his gas engine. He had to replace all the standing
> rigging because much of it  
> had been burned. It was a real mess, but his repairs
> included removing all  
> grounding equipment.
>  
> Rummy
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