Thirty-three percent of all lightning claims are from the sunshine state and the strike rate there is 3.3 boats per thousand. surprisingly, the second most struck area in the country is the chesapeake bay.. Hello, looking for a lightning sailboat, broken mast, no sails, no rudder ok. must be fiberglass, and have a good hull. call 408 nine three 1 five 0 four 0. I have a 1978 lightning 17' runabout fiberglass v hull sport boat with a 2000 suzuki 40hp outboard in good condition. includes a rocket international first load aluminum trailer in good shape. boat hull in good condition but could use a little fiberglass rework on bow and railings and some new paint..
Electrical gear, from batteries to radar and chart plotters, is most commonly affected, but occasionally lightning makes a beeline exit through a boat’s hull and blows holes through fiberglass. in extreme cases, d’antonio said, lightning can cause a transducer to blow out of the hull and sink a boat.. To protect yourself in a boat, the important thing is to give lightning a ground. boats made of steel, such as naval vessels, have an automatic ground in their metal hulls; but most small boats, usually constructed of fiberglass or wood, prevent the lightning easy access to the water and pose a grounding problem. small boats may also lack tall. An open boat like a runabout is the most dangerous to human life during lightning storms, since you are the highest point and most likely to get hit if the boat is struck. if shore is out of reach, the advice is to drop anchor, remove all metal jewelry, put on life jackets and get low in the center of the boat..
