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Extensive grab bag of checklists for sending distress calls, abandoning ship, contacting important people, dealing with medical emergencies, a fouled propeller, dead batteries, and dozens of other difficult situations. Contains excerpts from hard-to-find bulletin board and newsgroup postings, as well as links to useful sites and vendor pages.
[Bill Dietrich, USA]
Brief grab bag of facts and commentary about the very controversial subject of protecting your boat from lightning. Contains excerpts from hard-to-find bulletin board and newsgroup postings, as well as links to useful sites and vendor pages.
[Bill Dietrich, USA]
In theory, a lightning protection system creates a "Faraday′s cage" protecing the boat. Here′s how it works.
[BoatSafe.com, USA]
Description of DC grounding and cathodic bonding system in Island Packet yachts. Diagram.
[Sail Magazine, August 2002]
A vendor′s white paper on the design of a lighting ground system, including materials to use and avoid, masthead fittings, surge protection. Includes precautions to avoid personal injury and a definition of some relevant terms.
[SEYLA Marine Inc., Brossard, Québec, Canada]
A communications engineer certified in lightning protection talks about how to reduce the likelihood of a strike and deal with it when - not if - it hits. Includes diagrams.
[Marinenet Data Systems. Inc., Tequesta, FL, USA]
ABYC standards and recommended practices for the design, construction, and installation of lightning protection systems on boats.
[American Boat & Yacht Council, Edgewater, MD, USA]
The basic theory of lightning protection on a cruising boat, with suggested precautions when sailing in thunderstorms, and a description of air terminals, ground plates, equalization buses, surge arrestors and other gear.
[SailNet]
A grounding system from the mast to the water, using contact plates, conductors and dissipation electrodes outside of the cabin.
[SEYLA Marine Inc., Brossard, Québec, Canada]
Masthead air terminals, cables, and ground plates, with fasteners and related equipment for installing a lightning dissipation system.
[Lightning Prevention Systems, Inc., West Berlin, NJ, USA]
Electrolysis, Grounding and Corrosion
You cannot stop lightning strikes? just try to direct it where it will not do damage and that is the whole trick.
John Heron
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