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To: Dayuhan who wrote (16350)	1/9/1999 7:35:00 PM
From: Ish	Respond to of 71178

<<Sailing in thunderstorms always made me wonder about the guy who invented the aluminum mast. Just what you need, a big metal pole in the middle of a flat place.>> Actually a sailboat is a safe place to be during lightning. The mast makes a cone of protection and grounds it to the water. That's what I've been told, don't quote me if you get killed. Now standing up in a bass boat waving a graphite pole sounds silly to me. Another I've been told is a fiberglass boat is worse than an aluminum boat as the charge gets built up more on the fiberglass. Another tale, lightning in the area, you cast and the line floats instead of settling on the water, toss the rod and scram. I was sitting in a truck ten feet from a Burr Oak that got a hit. Convinced me.