[C320-list] DOWN: Windlass, ST 60s, ST4000+...UP:~12 V in rail...

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Hull #671 is not bonded, the rigging floats.
Bruce
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-----Original Message-----
From: "Chris Burti" <clburti at gmail.com>

Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 08:48:11 
To: <C320-List at catalina320.com>
Subject: Re: [C320-list] DOWN: Windlass, ST 60s,
	ST4000+...UP:~12 V in rail...


I found mine when I pulled up the floor board around the base of the mast.

On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 10:45 PM, warren updike <wupdike at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Chris, that's the first time I've heard that "The mast, stays, shrouds and
> pulpits are bonded to the grounding system."  I've been all over #62's
> electrical wiring and haven't found any way that the standing rigging is
> connected to the ship ground. Perhaps this approach was added in later
> models.
>
>
> Warren & Pattie Updke
> Catalina 320, #62, "Warr De Mar"
> Middle River, Chesapeake Bay
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Sunshine,
>
> Look in the aft lockers. The speaker wires terminate there. Catalina did
> not
> run them any further. My suspicion is that someone ether used one of them
> to
> wire a cockpit light or mistakently hooked them up to something.
>
> One other thing. The mast, stays, shrouds and pulpits are bonded to the
> grounding system. Therefore, any short running to ground will read off of
> them to any other ground.
>
>


-- 
Chris Burti
Farmville, NC