shocks from mast?!

Put my new boat in the boat park at the weekend. It has a carbon mast. It now lives under a Pylon. When I was putting the mast up, and indeed when it was rigged, I got some monster shocks from the mast. Not only did it shock me many times it was making an crackerling sound?!

I know there is a field given off by Pylons but this seemed much more intense than I would have expected.

Also does anyone think this could affect my mast!


Edited by Jack Sparrow

You were there? I didn't see anyone with a camera!

Originally posted by slop_idol over time possibly, heres an article about it http://www.rpsea.org/attachments/contentmanagers/428/0026-04 .pdf

  Wait a bit. This article is to do with salt water effects only, not electric fields. . The discussion is quite a buzz actually...

Edited by Slippery Jim

apologies for that i skimmed the article in my haste, but you mast will be covered in salt water so it could apply.  its a starting point anyhow.  i would be keen to move my boat away from the pylon.....just in case

edit: Jack, pm salty about what happend to a friends musto skiff mast when it struck a power line.....

Edited by slop_idol

I just thought... my space is on top of, what look like two cesspit metal vent pipes. Presumably going down into a tank (metal?) The tie down points are metal chains in concrete and I'm only 60 feet from the pylon base. Could there be a circuit of sorts being set up here?

Edited by Jack Sparrow