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Jones2r hit on a good point. IMHO, if you are worried about lightning strikes as a terminater to your sailing experience you might wish to select a different leisure-time activity. Most all of the "evidence" is anecdotal and barely into the theory category. I'd probably ground my mast and sail on worry free. It's not the type of situation, in a severe strike, you are going to walk away from anyway. In my career on ships I was never struck and our masts were substantially higher than any boats. I could be way off on this-lightning strikes happen all the time-but how often do they hit something of value? After twenty years at sea, I just found out I was suppossed to be worried about lightning-oh wow!
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