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    Posted: 31 May 05 at 3:06pm

We were on the Broads years ago on my Grandparents motor cruiser.  One night on Ranworth the boat on the next mooring was struck.  Apparently that lit up like a Christmas Tree (I was asleep at the time).  In the morning rowed over to it and several strands in the wire rigging had let go, the wooden mast was slightly charred and there were burn marks across the wooden hull from the deck (where shrouds meet deck) to the waterline.  Fortunately wasnt anyone onboard.

When I hear about people in dinghies getting killed regularly by lightening I'll start to worry.  Until then its not going to stop me, life is never going to be risk free and I resent those who campaign for or implement policy to reduce minute risks.  Common sense is the way forward not over-regulation causing a nanny-state!

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Originally posted by Hugh

 I resent those who campaign for or implement policy to reduce minute risks.

Who is doing that then? 

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best bet is let ur boat get struck while its in the dinghy compund and ur in the bar, then in therory lightening neva strickes in the same place ( the boat ) twice, you shud be safe for as long as u have that boat 
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A maths teacher at my school has been struck three times!!! dosn't seem to have made him any more interesting tho...
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An Enterprise got struck at Weir Wood on Monday morning.  The couple sailing it were fine evidently.  Bit surprised.  The lightning exited through their feet.  Not surprised because I believe one of them has metal replacement hips!
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But hang on I've got a carbon mast and a carbon boat..... it sounds like
i'm going to get fried. I think we should of come in on Monday when that
storm came in
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20/20 hind site is a wonderful thing Jack!
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Originally posted by Stefan Lloyd

Originally posted by Hugh

 I resent those who campaign for or implement policy to reduce minute risks.

Who is doing that then? 

For a start all the lentilists who are campaigning for lower speed limits on roads, more speed cameras etc.  I agree that one solution to the position we are in now is to put speed limits at such a level that even with people tailgaiting, suddenly changing lanes without looking or indicating (which I've seen numerous times in the last week); and to allow for the worst case scenario when visibility is down to 40m or so.  But this would put speed limits at about 30 on motorways!  It would be the next step towards a nanny state society that is well on its way already.

What we need to do (imo) is retrain drivers to think, but not about whether they are over an arbitrary limit, but about what speed is safe considering the car, their ability as a driver and the conditions at the time; and in some situations that is higher than current limits.  I would like to see traffic police given the funding instead of camera partnerships; because cameras don't pick up me doing 75 while trailing the boat, they don't catch people tailgating, and they don't catch people who shouldn't have passed their test.

Thats enough of a rant about motoring.  The winter before last, while I was still at school (in 6th form) the heating in the school broke down.  Strickly speaking the school should have closed because of the temperature in the buildings; it didn't but I know of other schools that did in similar circumstances.  Whats wrong with wearing a t-shirt under your shirt, or a jumper on top I wonder.  It is absolutely daft and such rules/legislation (whatever they are) shouldnt have been implemented in the first place.

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Post Options Post Options   Quote Stefan Lloyd Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 01 Jun 05 at 11:28am

Thats enough of a rant about motoring.  The winter before last, while I was still at school (in 6th form) the heating in the school broke down.

Ah, so absolutely nothing to do with this thread then.

 

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Originally posted by Stefan Lloyd

Thats enough of a rant about motoring.  The winter before last, while I was still at school (in 6th form) the heating in the school broke down.

Ah, so absolutely nothing to do with this thread then.

Not really, no.  But you asked who was trying to create a society that was as risk free as possible and I was mearly obliging.

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