On Sun, 18 Dec 2005 19:28:11 -0500, Larry wrote:

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NO lightning prevention system can prevent lightning from destroying the
boat....and still have a boat the waterline is below the toerail.
Lightning is hundreds of thousands of amps at billions of volts rising
from 0 in microseconds, creating an amazing electro-magnetic pulse,
which is what destroys all your electronic stuff. It only has to be
"close" to just blast it all to hell....
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Not strictly comparable to boat strikes are airliner strikes. The
usual result of these is a pin hole or two going in and leaving the
skin. That's aluminum skin planes. Glass planes need more careful
design.....

Brian Whatcott Altus OK