Gaff rig, woodmast, synthetic shrouds and lightning protection

[movenden]

Hi,

After reading all the posts on this forum I am fairly certain we will be using synthetic standing rigging.

We will have a gaff rig, and I'm wondering if anybody has any previous experience on providing lightning protection for a rig with a wood mast and synthetic shrouds.

I'm going to be laminating up our spars next month and at the moment planning to run a large conductor internally and bond it to underwater metal. I am somewhat concerned about heating of this conductor and it will be over sized from the nominal NFPA/AYBC 4awg guidance.

Thoughts ? Comments ? Hoping somebody else has thought about this also.

Cheers,
Mark