[Public-List] Lightning Ground

[Gordon Laco]

I told a good friend who is an ardent Christian that I pray to mythological gods from extinct religions during storms.   I infuriated him with my reasoning which went like this:

"A long ignored god might be more likely to grant me something I want but possibly don't deserve out of gratitude for having attention paid, after being forgotten"

He condescended to see the humour (as I hope you folks will to)

Gord. 

On 2013-07-26, at 1:22 PM, Kris Coward <kris at melon.org> wrote:

> 
> I remember the last time I was out in a lightning storm with a bunch of
> friends, I pointed out that the strip of steel on the stem is attached
> to the bow casting, which is connected to the forestay, so if we're
> struck, we should be prepared for the forestay to melt, and the jib to
> catch fire. Also, the ground sheath on the coax leading up the the
> antenna is almost certainly bonded (or easily shorted) to the ground on
> the DC system, so the ground wires supplying the radio stand a decent
> chance of catching fire (as does the radio), and neither the radio nor
> the engine should be expected to work after a strike. Then I reminded
> them that there's no such thing as an atheist in a storm, and invited
> them to pray to anyone or anything that they could hope to keep us from
> getting struck.
> 
> I suspect your masthead is similarly *ahem* grounded, so no point
> fussing about with the keel (especially since it's already been pointed
> out that the keel's encapsulated anyway).
> 
> Cheers,
> Kris
> 
> On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 08:42:15AM -0700, Bill Boyle wrote:
>> Anyone know if the mast is grounded to the keel?  If so, how?  If not, does anyone have thoughts on how to do that?
>>  
>> Bill Boyle
>> 129
>> 
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