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09-03-2013, 10:59
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Join Date: May 2010
Location: SF Bay Area; Former Annapolis and MA Liveaboard.
Boat: Looking and saving for my next...mid-atlantic coast
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Re: Hot wiring your hand rails?
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09-03-2013, 11:06
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Re: Hot wiring your hand rails?
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09-03-2013, 11:14
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2011
Location: Lake Ont
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Re: Hot wiring your hand rails?
Hot-wired lifelines cause Global Warming, amirite??
(no takers? Bueller?)
Actual reasons why not:
- liability
- liability
- liability
... but there's nothing stopping you from wiring your lifelines to be touch or pressure sensitive and triggering a loud alarm, after a small delay. Or an IR motion detector covering the cockpit.
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09-03-2013, 16:10
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#20
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2011
Boat: WTB Lagoon or Leopard 38'-40'
Posts: 1,271
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Re: Hot wiring your hand rails?
What I want to know is whether hotwiring a shotgun to a lifeline works as well on a monohull as it does on a multihull. I don't think it does. This is really just one more way that multihulls show their clear superiority.
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09-03-2013, 16:15
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2012
Posts: 449
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Re: Hot wiring your hand rails?
Quote:
Originally Posted by ArtM
What I want to know is whether hotwiring a shotgun to a lifeline works as well on a monohull as it does on a multihull. I don't think it does. This is really just one more way that multihulls show their clear superiority.
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You would think so, but ... multihulls by nature call for multithings. So, multihull with multiguns would work as well as monohull with monogun ...
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09-03-2013, 17:50
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2011
Boat: WTB Lagoon or Leopard 38'-40'
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Re: Hot wiring your hand rails?
The only thing missing from this thread now is a global warming argument... unless I skipped over it.
OOPS! I did skip over it. So have we got it all? Pirates - Guns - Mono vs Multi - Global Warming.
It's makes me wonder how the whales are being affected.
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09-03-2013, 18:06
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2009
Location: San Jose, California
Boat: Force 5, 13 feet, Binouchka
Posts: 35
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Re: Hot wiring your hand rails?
Quote:
Originally Posted by ArtM
The only thing missing from this thread now is a global warming argument... unless I skipped over it.
OOPS! I did skip over it. So have we got it all? Pirates - Guns - Mono vs Multi - Global Warming.
It's makes me wonder how the whales are being affected.
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Actually, I'm wondering what would happen if you hooked it up to your anchor rode. The added tension on the rode when the perp boards could be used to trigger the high voltage circuit and also fire the shotgun. Of course, a Rocna would not be as effective in this application as a Dansforth, I'm sure everyone can agree on that...
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09-03-2013, 18:16
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2011
Boat: WTB Lagoon or Leopard 38'-40'
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Re: Hot wiring your hand rails?
AND IT WOULD ZAP THE MANATEES! YES!!
Mods, this thread is officially ready to be closed.
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09-03-2013, 18:25
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Lakewood Ranch, FLORIDA
Boat: Alden 50, Sarasota, Florida
Posts: 3,467
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Re: Hot wiring your hand rails?
Electrolysis heaven. This sounds like the most ingenious way to destroy 100 years of grounding wisdom.
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09-03-2013, 18:49
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2012
Posts: 449
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Re: Hot wiring your hand rails?
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Originally Posted by ArtM
Mods, this thread is officially ready to be closed.
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Not until the fat lady sings ...
It is not over until the fat lady sings - YouTube
... oh, she just has sung ...
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10-03-2013, 06:28
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Alaska
Boat: Truant Triad 37 Cutter-Alaska, Leopard 40 Cat, Bahamas
Posts: 364
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I've been keeping this a secret but maybe its time to reveal. All this gun, shocking, spear/flare gun stuff is weak.
My boat will always be protected by trained sharks, using an electric impulse so they can know when to start thrashing and eating. If the intruders are still in one boat or the other the sharks are authorized to board or in lieu of that may fire ray guns or a 9 mil.
They are well fed afterward, that and a few casino chips all they need for the service.
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10-03-2013, 06:55
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Homer, AK is my home port
Boat: Skookum 53'
Posts: 4,042
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Re: Hot wiring your hand rails?
Mods this thread is officially ready to stay open until we quit posting on it. If you don't like the content then Unsubscribe.
I wasn't going to reveal my true security measures due to nature of the device. My life lines are wired up to a trans dimensional shifter, so when someone of evil intent tries to board my vessel they immediately vanish to a different dimension never to find their way back.
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10-03-2013, 07:31
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#29
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2010
Posts: 2,909
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Re: Hot wiring your hand rails?
Hot wire? Hot wire is for wussies. This is the bad boy that will absolutely stop all boarders.
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