Not sure this will work but if it does it might make you a little cautious cruising around thunder cells and lightening
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Lightning hitting water
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coolchange
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Lightning hitting water
1989 Albin 27 FC w/ Isuzu 157 hp, Ford 6.0 Diesel, giant trailer
6th, and most favorite boat yet
Cruising: Columbia River Portland to Bar, San Juans, Gulf Islands,
Desolation Sound, Sunshine Coast, Broughton Islands
6th, and most favorite boat yet
Cruising: Columbia River Portland to Bar, San Juans, Gulf Islands,
Desolation Sound, Sunshine Coast, Broughton Islands
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Norseman
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Re: Lightening hitting water
Looks like dynamite to me...
2001 28TE, 6LP-STE, 1,337 hrs, 19X18 four-blade wheel.
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Jay Knoll
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Re: Lightening hitting water
yeah, looking at it closely it appears that something is thrown into the water.
We got caught out in the Gulf Stream years ago on a night passage back to Florida from the Bahamas when we got a warning from the coast guard to "seek shelter immediately" because of a series of strong thunder/lighting cells moving eastward off the Florida coast. Well there wasn't really any place to hide so we rode it out and experienced several hours of lighting with strikes on the water all around us -- fortunately none on the boat even though we were the tallest thing for miles around! None of the strikes looked like that, but the illumination in the water from the strikes was a fantastic sight. Glad we experienced it, don't care to do it ever again!
We got caught out in the Gulf Stream years ago on a night passage back to Florida from the Bahamas when we got a warning from the coast guard to "seek shelter immediately" because of a series of strong thunder/lighting cells moving eastward off the Florida coast. Well there wasn't really any place to hide so we rode it out and experienced several hours of lighting with strikes on the water all around us -- fortunately none on the boat even though we were the tallest thing for miles around! None of the strikes looked like that, but the illumination in the water from the strikes was a fantastic sight. Glad we experienced it, don't care to do it ever again!
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Tree
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Re: Lightening hitting water
Absolutely, you can see the detonator cord go.
Does look good fun though.
Fisher Price 2
Hull Number AUL28489L900
Yanmar 6LP-STE
Built in Portsmouth RI, USA - Berthed in Portsmouth Hampshire, United Kingdom.
Hull Number AUL28489L900
Yanmar 6LP-STE
Built in Portsmouth RI, USA - Berthed in Portsmouth Hampshire, United Kingdom.
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kerrye
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Re: Lightning hitting water
Anchored with a group of trailer sailors in the North Channel last summer we got hit with a nasty thunderstorm. Strikes all around us. A number of people lost electronics that day. We were about 10 boats anchored in about a 75 yd radius. Luckily there was an island with a rock outcropping higher than the masts about 40 yds away. Not something I want to repeat.