Static electricty . Caused by a dry wind blowing through the rigging or a storm
in the area.

"Over40pirate" wrote in message
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A few years ago while cruising, I was weighing anchor, and when I got to
the
chain (no windlass then) I was shocked, not by what was on the hook, but
as in
electrical shock. I dropped it and pulled it in again with the same
shocking
results. It wasn't a killing shock, and as the hook was clear of the
bottom, I
motored off enough with the hook in the water to be sure I didn't pick up
a
live cable, then hauled it aboard, getting shocked as I did it.
Before I tell the cause, any guesses?
K

I've been cracked by an electric eel fighting the hook.

Over40pirate wrote:

A few years ago while cruising, I was weighing anchor, and when I got to the
chain (no windlass then) I was shocked, not by what was on the hook, but as in
electrical shock. I dropped it and pulled it in again with the same shocking
results. It wasn't a killing shock, and as the hook was clear of the bottom, I
motored off enough with the hook in the water to be sure I didn't pick up a
live cable, then hauled it aboard, getting shocked as I did it.
Before I tell the cause, any guesses?
K

Your wind generator is not hooked up right. You completed a
circuit when you touched the chain contacting the water.

You were anchored near a radio transmitter tower, and got a shock
induced by some parasitic pick up?

Your pacemaker malfunctioned?

You pulled up a broken fence charger wire?

Terry K

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Better start talking...or it's gonna Campo del X-Ray...


LS

Nope

Any last tries, before the cause is revealed?

Electric eel wrapped around your anchor? :-)
Jim
"Over40pirate" wrote in message
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Any last tries, before the cause is revealed?

Subject: Shocking experience weighing anchor.
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Before I tell the cause, any guesses?
K


Loose battery ground?

Dennis

The wind generator threw a winding, and it was rubbing on the magnets inside
the housing!
K

Over40pirate wrote:

Your wind generator is not hooked up right. You completed a
circuit when you touched the chain contacting the water.

You were anchored near a radio transmitter tower, and got a shock
induced by some parasitic pick up?

Your pacemaker malfunctioned?

You pulled up a broken fence charger wire?

Terry K



Very close, very close

Close? (True story) Once, I won a pizza shooting a blackpowder
blunderbuss, a 'Brown Bess' flintlock, with a one second delay
after pulling the trigger, no less! I aimed, pulled the trigger,
was perplexed when it didn't go BOOM, I unsquinted, moved my
head, looked at the target with both eyes, then it went boom and
kicked, and the apple, at 50 yards, exploded. The guy offering
the pizza shoot, covered in apple pulp, said, "Close!"

I think the apple was wired, and I was an unwitting shill. His
business picked right up, after that. No body else got the apple,
or a pizza.

A bad connection is the windmill counts as not being hooked up
right in my book.

Where's my pizza?
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