tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6188789717376101953.post7141340839317309576..comments2023-10-10T04:36:46.648+13:00Comments on Voyage of Bravo: High Stakes Game of "Whack-a-Mole"Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6188789717376101953.post-89212637997210326182012-04-29T03:17:54.523+12:002012-04-29T03:17:54.523+12:00Hi Guys,
Living vicariously again by reading blo...Hi Guys,<br /> <br />Living vicariously again by reading blogs. We are still in La Cruz. I am wishing we had gone south with you guys, Judy is wishing our FM3's get here soon so we can get north.<br /><br />We went to a seminar on surviving summers in Banderas Bay the other day. One of the topics was how to protect a boat hit by lightening. The current (no pun intended) thinking is to drop welding lines into the water, much as you have done. The experts recommend connecting wires to multiple shrouds, dropping the wire ends just a few inches beneath the surface. This is the important part: just beneath the surface. Apparently the charge is dissapated better at the surface of the water. Also recommended was that the wire strands be flared out to help the dissapation. This a bit of a change from a few years ago when the mantra was to route the current thru the mast to a strip of copper connected to the hull. Apparently the thinking is now to keep the current outside and as far away from the boat as possible by using the shrouds. <br /><br />Also recommended was disconnecting valuable electronics and moving them several feet away from any boat wiring, or removing the hot and negative wires a couple feet away from those components you can't move.<br /><br />Sounds like you missed the big blow in Behia del Sol. Many boats broke loose with some major damage.<br /><br />Paul<br />SV GracePaulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01189344703428648747noreply@blogger.com