You should have them on at all times while underway anyway.....

CM

"Njord" wrote in message
news:B2XOa.11$ob1.3@lakeread07...
| No one mentioned it yet, but I think it would be a good idea to don life
| jackets. Hopefully, you won't need them, but it is better to put them on
and
| not need them then to not put them on an wish you had. If you have the
room,
| you might also consider coming off the wind on a beam or broad reach to
| reduce the apparent wind.
|
| --
|
| Njord
|
| I must go down to the seas again, for the call of the running tide
| Is a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied;
| And all I ask is a windy day with the white clouds flying,
| And the flung spray and the blown spume, and the sea-gulls crying.
|
| From Sea-Fever by John Masefield
|
|

Tris are superior to cats in every way.

Weight?


RB

Is it necessary, or wise, to provide a pathway for lightning, from the mast
to the water? If so, how would you fabricate and connect it?
Scout

"Simple Simon" wrote
Lightning is no more likely to strike you well offshore

I heard of chains on the shrouds and stays.... really... what's next... a
telescopic mast?

CM

"Scout" wrote in message
...
| Is it necessary, or wise, to provide a pathway for lightning, from the
mast
| to the water? If so, how would you fabricate and connect it?
| Scout
|
| "Simple Simon" wrote
| Lightning is no more likely to strike you well offshore
|
|

CM,
I suppose with a million volts and more, it probably doesn't matter that the
chain links may have very little contact area with each other. Hell, I could
easily attach my anchor chain to a stay, and leave the anchor drag as
conductive plate in the water. Never thought of that.
I was wondering though, if cables wouldn't be a better conductor. I'm also
wondering: given the right system, wouldn't a sailboat (or at least the
passengers) be safer than those on a motorboat with no system to divert a
strike?
I saw a man get hit and killed by lightning while he was loading a
motorcycle into the back of his pickup truck. Truthfully, the image stays
with a person. His eyes looked like a couple of fried eggs. I get more
than a bit nervous thinking about sailing around with a virtual sign that
says, "Hey lightning, over here! pick me!"
Scout

"Capt. Mooron" wrote
I heard of chains on the shrouds and stays.... really... what's next...
a
telescopic mast?

CM

I hung a sign on my mast that says, ''Christian''. It's worked so far.

Scotty

"Scout" ...
with a virtual sign that
says, "Hey lightning, over here! pick me!"
Scout

with a virtual sign that
says, "Hey lightning, over here! pick me!"
Scout

I have been nearly struck 3 times...thrown to the ground once...I figure my odds are lessening with each storm I'm out in (out
in? what a strange expression to use...) It's a far better way to go than some...far more preferable to 2 years of chemo or
being on a respirator....

--
katysails
s/v Chanteuse
Kirie Elite 32
Ad eundum quo nemo ante iit.
http://katysails.tripod.com

"Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax
and get used to the idea." - Robert A. Heinlein

I don't. I'm always tethered to a boat with full positive
buoyancy. I did start to wonder whether to stick one on Sunday
last, though. Especially when I mistimed a tack and the horizon
appeared under the bow, followed by shipping it brown over the
deck...

FT

"Capt. Mooron" wrote:

You should have them on at all times while underway anyway.....

CM

"Njord" wrote in message
news:B2XOa.11$ob1.3@lakeread07...
| No one mentioned it yet, but I think it would be a good idea to don life
| jackets. Hopefully, you won't need them, but it is better to put them on
and
| not need them then to not put them on an wish you had. If you have the
room,
| you might also consider coming off the wind on a beam or broad reach to
| reduce the apparent wind.
|
| --
|
| Njord
|
| I must go down to the seas again, for the call of the running tide
| Is a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied;
| And all I ask is a windy day with the white clouds flying,
| And the flung spray and the blown spume, and the sea-gulls crying.
|
| From Sea-Fever by John Masefield
|
|

Are you saying the boat has bouyancy or do you? You **** yourself over a
missed tack? You should try relaxing more. Chill out. Sailing is fun...

Cheers MC

Flying Tadpole wrote:

I don't. I'm always tethered to a boat with full positive
buoyancy. I did start to wonder whether to stick one on Sunday
last, though. Especially when I mistimed a tack and the horizon
appeared under the bow, followed by shipping it brown over the
deck...

FT

The navigator © wrote:

Are you saying the boat has bouyancy or do you?

The boat. I'm not in LIS, remember.

You **** yourself over a
missed tack? You should try relaxing more. Chill out. Sailing is fun...

Ha. I'm sure I would have seen the change on my yellow foulies.
The wind then was 40kn, middle of a squall, and I was trying out
to windward using just the ultimate 3-reefed main, no mizzen. I
missed one tack, got cross with myself and wrathfully fell off a
bit, then whipped her round without bothering to look at what was
coming. Doing a whale breach or for that matter actually
shipping it brown (remember, I do not have blue or green water)
over the actual deck on the way down was not something I ever
expected to be doing in a 30ft ballasted sailboat in a 12 foot
deep lake with a normal maximum 5 foot wave. Serves me right for
not looking and not letting that set go by before tacking her

Flying Tadpole

Cheers MC

Flying Tadpole wrote:

I don't. I'm always tethered to a boat with full positive
buoyancy. I did start to wonder whether to stick one on Sunday
last, though. Especially when I mistimed a tack and the horizon
appeared under the bow, followed by shipping it brown over the
deck...

FT