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Question concerning boating and lightning...

On Wed, 03 Jun 2009 01:50:22 -0400, wrote:

The real trick is to be able to read the clouds and try to see them
coming in time to get to a safe place to wait it out.

You can get a radar that will pick up a storm at 20 miles for under a
grand. In 1970 I saw a sixteen foot boat with radar. It wasn't cheap
then. A commercial fishing boat. [ Stockholm ]. I think it was used to
handle the other end of the net for a bigger boat.

Casady

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