[Rhodes22-list] sailing and lightning (long reply)

[Brad Haslett]

Rummy,

If you search through the archives, you'll find my own extensive research
about lightning and sailboats.  Here is the sum results of my findings.
Electrical lightning is bad.  White lightning is good!  Since I'm based on a
Tennessee lake, the good lightning is easier to find here than on other
bodies of water. We get plenty of the other kind but just call it a
religious experience.  In other parts of the country they have  a close
facsimile of the white stuff, but  watered down with a label. Those people
run their kids for office.

My two cents worth.

Brad

On 7/29/06, R22RumRunner at aol.com <R22RumRunner at aol.com> wrote:
>
> Art and all,
> This is a topic that comes up at least once every year. There are a lot of
> people that have done extensive research on the topic and the general
> consensus
> is that nobody can say with any amount of certainty which is the best
> approach  for our boats.
> Since the R22 has a cabin top stepped mast and not a mast that goes to the
> keel, I'm suggesting that it makes a lousy and probably an unlikely target
> for
> lightning. I sail on an inland lake which increases the odds that I will
> probably never get hit.
> Now, all that being said, I hate lightning and whenever there's even a
> slight chance for a storm, I'm at the dock and going home.
>
> Rummy
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