I heard, that the fact that since most boats are is either made of plastic or have plastic components such as paint, gelcoat and similar materials, develop eletrostatic charges when moving through the water. That could attract lightening... Heike *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Sat Oct 25 2003 - 15:13:50 PDT
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.4.0 : Thu Aug 21 2025 - 16:31:10 PDT