Any of your neighbors doing some target practice with their 12-gauge shotgun? :^)
Fred Street -- Minneapolis S/V Oceanis (1979 C&C Landfall 38) -- on the hard in Bayfield, WI :^( > On May 21, 2018, at 8:46 AM, robert via CnC-List <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Just finished a sail on Saturday p.m., started the motor and was standing in > the cockpit with my back facing the bow when I heard a loud noise, what > sounded like a 12 gauge gun go off behind me......felt something hit me in > the back, turned around and saw 5 - 6 square pieces of aluminum on the deck > and on the cockpit sole.....scared the heck out of me.....for a moment, had > no idea what had just happened. > > Looked up to check things aloft and noticed my radar reflector (cylinder > shaped) which I had attached to my lower shroud with four (4) zip ties (2 > each top and bottom)......had been doing that for a dozen years with no > issues....and it was gone....all gone....nothing left attached to the > shroud.....not the two black end pieces of the reflector or any of the 4 > plastic zip ties.....only thing(s) that remained were 6 pieces of the > aluminum from inside the reflector that fell down.....the rest must of went > overboard. > > I have never heard of this happening, ever......the radar reflector simply > exploded. And it was not full of water which might have expanded because > some years ago when I took it off the boat in the Fall, there was a little > water in it so I drilled a 3/16" hole in one side which always then became > the 'bottom' when attaching to the shroud in the Spring. > > Has this ever happened to anyone else? > > Can anyone explain how a cylinder type radar reflector can explode like mine > did? > > Rob Abbott > AZURA > C&C 32 - 84 > Halifax, N.S.
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