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Tom Potter
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Initially Posted - 08/22/2012 :  17:26:46  Show Profile
About three weeks ago lightning struck my mast head. It took out my VHF antenna, windex, anchor light, VHF, stereo and oddly both the bow and stern lights. It's strange what gets damaged and what dont in a strike. It even took out the little red power light on my 12volt control panel and not the one for the shore power panel. It missed my depth finder, chart plotter and steaming light.

I did a quick haul at the local marina to check the bottom, lucky for me there was no damage. The insurance company assigned a marine surveyor to go over everything. I was a little disappointed in the deprecation amounts in the settlement but with me doing the work I was able to break even.

On the bright side I got some new stuff!
1997 250 TR WK (sold)
1984 O'Day 28 (sold)
1979 SISU 22
Bath, NC.
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rrick
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Response Posted - 08/22/2012 :  17:42:43  Show Profile
Floating in a sea of electrolytes, lucky. I fear the day my freshwater boat blows up on a direct strike. How did insurance work? I have an agreed hull value. If they paid for repairs, seems the agreed upon value would not change?
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putzmeister
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Response Posted - 08/22/2012 :  17:53:13  Show Profile
Strange stuff indeed . . . a boat located one finger dock away was struck a few years ago. In addition to taking out all the electrics, the lightning exited through the hull, port and starboard, just above the waterline.

After fixing the boat themselves they renamed it <i>High Voltage.</i>
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szymek
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Response Posted - 08/22/2012 :  18:36:34  Show Profile
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by putzmeister</i>
After fixing the boat themselves they renamed it <i>High Voltage.</i>
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This has got to be most appropriate name!

Jokes aside.... I'm glad that everyone was safe and you were able to repair the boat.. on lake Ontario weather conditions can change rapidly. once on a 20 mile crossing i started off with no wind and by the time I got back to the marina I was fighting in 20kt+ with gusts.
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TakeFive
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Response Posted - 08/22/2012 :  19:25:55  Show Profile
I considered naming my boat that:
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But I went with a different jazz musician instead.
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Voyager
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Response Posted - 08/25/2012 :  07:50:02  Show Profile
Tom
It's a really good thing the lightning bolt exited your boat thru the bow and stern pulpits and lights. I dont know whether you've run a grounding wire between the mast step and the keel bolts. It's not uncommon for lightning to "jump" the gap between the mast and the hull and hole the boat. All things considered, you got away very lucky.
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