Wayne.B wrote in
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I didn't have to try it. A lightening strike on a wavetop 100 yards
away provided all the "simulation" we needed.

Ouch! I bet that got the old adrenaline charged up for war!

Every time we get in a storm, I can't help but think how stupid I am
sitting here holding the grounded stainless wheel at the base of the 60
ft lightning rod just begging for a direct hit.

I still can't imagine we're so insignificant more lightning hits aren't
direct to the mast head....but it doesn't seem to happen much. I did
watch it split an unoccupied Catalina 27 in half in a thunderstorm at our
marina, one hot afternoon. The boat sank into the floating dock held up
by its lines, sinking the dock and almost the other boat tied to the same
finger pier. It was so fast there was no fire or smoke. It just blew
the bottom out of the hull and down she went.

Er, ah, we crawled down the dock really soon afterwards.....(c;

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