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Dog -- Thanks. That really describes what happened to that one fellow with the Freedom. It also makes sense from a conductivity viewpoint, and why an aluminum mast likely will come through a strike unscathed. The metal is a solid conductor and will let the electrical charge follow the grounding path to the keel-- hopefully? From what I have read and observed, these strikes are so powerful that the electricity pretty much goes where it wants, follows whatever path it wants, etc.
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