Besides for everything else, those "reflectors" don't actually do
anything involving reflecting radar.
Joe
Coquina
C&C 35 MK I
On 5/21/2018 10:14 AM, robert via CnC-List wrote:
That is a possibility, but not a probably.....the reflector was on the
lower port shroud....there was no one in front of or behind me and no
sign of anything that might have hit the mast or either the port or
starboard side.
But that is what one of my marina neighbors suggested in jest!!!
Rob
On 2018-05-21 10:50 AM, Frederick G Street via CnC-List wrote:
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
<cnc-list@cnc-list.com <mailto:cnc-list@cnc-list.com>> 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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