Masthead Spark arestor or Lightning dissapator

[Gunkholer]

Hi all.

I do lake sailing mostly and a lot of times bad weather rolls in rather quickly.

Wondering if anyone knows how to set up a lightning dissapator and where to get the supplies from?

I've seen a few on the older 25's (I beleive) and know that they somehow attach to a metal plate on the swing keel but I have a 26X which we all know is a bit different. Would lke to protect my family and me just in case we get a stike on the water.

Can anyone help me?

Thanks in advance.

Ron

[David Mellon]

If you use the search engine you will find extensive threads on this subject. I prefer to sacrifice a goat to Thor every Ides of March, so far it has worked.

[bubba]

Heavy stiff copper wire and some big electrical clips, attached when needed to both starboard and port sides of the srouds and let them hang in the water, and 2 goats for the BBQ

[Hamin' X]

Here we go again.

~Rich

[Pete]

Sail with a friend who has a bigger boat and taller mast. Stay close but not too close.

[bubba]

Hamin'X we sail the river in your back yard but have never seen you out sailing your ghost sail boat. We need to neet sometime. The weather is too hot this time of year and too many thunder storms in your back yard. We will be back sailing the Columbia river in late September and thru the winter months. Were off to the San Juan Islands in a few months.

[Hamin' X]

Hamin'X we sail the river in your back yard but have never seen you out sailing your ghost sail boat. We need to neet sometime. The weather is too hot this time of year and too many thunder storms in your back yard. We will be back sailing the Columbia river in late September and thru the winter months. Were off to the San Juan Islands in a few months.

I have been dealing with injuries for the past 2 years and even had to cancel my charter trip in August from Bellingham, as well as a trip out of Santa Cruz this past May. I should have been back to work the first of July, but I will be going in for surgery to re-repair a failed rotator cuff in about two weeks. Maybe next summer will be better. I cannot even get on a horse right now. I even sold my Holder-14, so right now I am boatless.

~Rich---From a rest area near Boise, Idaho

[Highlander]

Hows this for an awakening

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1_ImA6LLR0
do you still wanna go out & play

J

[Rick Westlake]

Hows this for an awakening

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1_ImA6LLR0
do you still wanna go out & play

J

Maybe - but damn-if-I want to play THAT "music"!!!!!

I notice the "video" didn't show any lightning strikes on the boats in Positano harbor. The only shots showed lightning strikes on the headlands - or out to sea.

Seriously, I'm giving thought to a "feather duster" lightning dissipator for the masthead of Bossa Nova. Forespar's "Lightning Master," with suitable bonding&grounding, looks as though it would carry away enough "electrical potential" that one of our boats would become a "low spot" in the water, from lightning's perspective.

And maybe I'd still sacrifice the goat. "Cabrito" is a tasty barbecue!