[C320-list] Thunderstorm tactics

[Jeff Hare]

Hi Chris,

There simply isn't any proven statistical difference between being grounded or not being grounded when it comes to lightning strikes. The atmospheric conditions around your boat are really what matters.

Personally I like not being grounded. All things being equal it makes me "feel" like i'm less of a lightning rod. 

We have been in many severe lightning storms on the boat and had much smaller power boats 10 slips away hit. We have been lucky so far. Some day that will change I guess.

So, during the worst of it we stay near the companionway away from the shrouds and hope for the best.

-Jeff 
#809 Woodbine II 


Christopher Nichols <cinichols at btinternet.com> wrote:


Any thoughts on handling the possibility of lightning strike on a c320. 
Grounding plate fitted as standard given the lead keel?

Am transiting cape cod canal today and they say a high prob of t-storms given the heat.


Chris Nichols

On Jul 7, 2011, at 6:56 AM, Jeff Hare <catalina at thehares.com> wrote:

> It hardly moves at all. Maybe 1/8" total. Ours were quite stiff to operate. 
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> Pull and push hard and it will click loudly into position.
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> Yea, feels like you're going to pull it apart and that's normal for this switch.
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> -jeff
> 2001 #809 
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> bairdrjb at aol.com wrote:
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> Need some guidance on how to operate the Anchor Windlass Switch located on the battery panel, starboard side. It is a push/pull on-off switch. 
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> I'm not sure how far to push or pull that red knob and I don't want to break it. 
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> Thanks.
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> 
> Bob Baird
> Star Dust, 2001
> Hull 784
> Whitehall, Michigan
>