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If you ask three experts about lightening, you will get at least 4 different answers. The bottom line is that there is a lot of conflicting evidence about lightening. If you bond your boat, you attract lightening, if you don't do anything, you do not attract it. So the best option is to not do anything and stay "near" a bonded boat.
It never occurred to me that a carbon fiber mast is like a spark plug wire. Resin replaces the rubber cover and it is filled with carbon. Adding a huge copper conductor inside the mast to carry the lightning current to ground defeats the purpose of using CF by adding weight high in the boat.
Maybe one of the problems is CF with wire rigging. If you have a CF mast and non metal rigging, I would think that the lightening would not be attracted to the rig? That would only leave a problem when you are miles from nowhere which is when it does not matter what you do. Just an opinion.
Cheers
Dennis
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