[quote=Deepsees]There is no protection from lighting. Just wrong place at the wrong time. The best practice is a weather savy skipper. Here in the Tampa bay area, it can go from nice to scary in twenty minutes.
I was in a 18 ft power boat at Boca Grand drift fishing in the interior. Lovely skies at sunset, suddenly all the hair on us stood straight out and our skin tingled. I told my sons to lay down their rods and them too. I was scared to start the engine lest that trigger the strike. But I did... and we powered out of it.
It has never happened to me before or since. A fiberglass tiller might ease some of the pain during a strike.[/quote]
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