Our 49 feet includes the lightning rod. We do not remember seeing a draft board for the bridge. We measured the boat about four days prior to doing the bridge.
Ed Ed Kelly from USSV ANGEL LOUISE web postings at http://twitter.com/CaptEdKelly On Jan 28, 2011, at 7:07 PM, Philip <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Ed, > Are you measuring from the waterline to the top of the mast? > I am assuming that the lightning rod is an additional 3 feet. That would > make your required clearance 52 feet. Is that accurate? > > I forget, but is there a draft board on that bridge and did you notice > the stated clearance? > Thanks > Philip > > On Fri, 2011-01-28 at 12:45 -0500, Ed Kelly wrote: >> We have a 49 foot mast and it was touch and go whether we could make >> it through the >> Port Mayaca Railroad Bridge on the East Side of Lake Okeechobee... so >> we decided >> to go through backwards! We were ready to hit full forward if we >> were going to >> be too close. We had a full 8 inches to our masthead antennas and >> lightning rod. >> >> > -- > S/V ORYOKI > Currently lying in Beaufort NC > > "There's no point in making a plan if > you're going to pretend to follow it!" > > _______________________________________________ > Liveaboard mailing list > [email protected] > To adjust your membership settings over the web > http://liveaboardonline.com/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard > To subscribe send an email to [email protected] > > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > The archives are at http://www.liveaboardonline.com/pipermail/liveaboard/ > > To search the archives > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > > The Mailman Users Guide can be found here > http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html > _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://liveaboardonline.com/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardonline.com/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
