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Re: The bad news during our June 19 - 26 cruise
[Re: jagmansr]
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07/02/2019 07:59 PM
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We were about 100 ft from the cat that took the direct hit. On engine start up the next morning we had a check engine warning. Limped in to Roadtown and replaced a fuel pressure sensor. No big deal but it toasted a day for us. The service guys didn't show up for several hours. Told me we were the 6th boat they had serviced that day from Cooper. All of the moorings were full at Cooper that night and many of the boats had some sort of issue. And I can tell you with absolute certainty that you won't sleep through a lightning strike like that! Boom!
Life's short - sail more!
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Re: The bad news during our June 19 - 26 cruise
[Re: jagmansr]
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07/03/2019 10:52 AM
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I was the captain of Painkiller when she was struck by lightning and disabled. We took the main strike to our mast, and it knocked out several nearby boats too. Nobody was injured, no fire (but some smoke from burned out lights, etc-- never good to wake up to smoke on a boat!), no hull damage, and BVI Yacht Chaters got us back out on the water in a new boat by 2pm. We missed The Baths on our itinerary, but we hustled and were able to get to Anegada by the next day.
joeboo, sorry about putting your boat out of commission, but that's great that they got you on a bigger boat!
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Re: The bad news during our June 19 - 26 cruise
[Re: Christo]
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07/04/2019 04:03 PM
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sail445
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When big T-Storms come through in the BVI we turn all main power breakers off. Something I was taught when crewing on superyachts in another lifetime.
We also do this on our own yacht which has a lightning protection system...just in case.
...anyone know if this is nonsense or...a good call?
Turning off the breakers is helpful if you don’t get a direct hit. Most times the lightening strikes close enough to cause a light stray current to enter your system where it will fry the radio or some lights and not effect anything else and that’s when turning off the breaker box helps
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Re: The bad news during our June 19 - 26 cruise
[Re: sail445]
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07/04/2019 04:10 PM
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When big T-Storms come through in the BVI we turn all main power breakers off. Something I was taught when crewing on superyachts in another lifetime.
We also do this on our own yacht which has a lightning protection system...just in case.
...anyone know if this is nonsense or...a good call?
Turning off the breakers is helpful if you don’t get a direct hit. Most times the lightening strikes close enough to cause a light stray current to enter your system where it will fry the radio or some lights and not effect anything else and that’s when turning off the breaker box helps Thanks. So not just tin-hat stuff! We will continue to 'go dark' in that case!
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Re: The bad news during our June 19 - 26 cruise
[Re: mriley4955]
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07/04/2019 07:54 PM
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What During a run south from Annapolis to Miami, I was in a squall. When The rain stopped and the curtains parted, there was a waterspout and lightning directly in front of me. I put a set of jumper cables in the water that were attached to a ground point. We never got hit but it was the best I could come up with in short notice. What did you use as a ground point?
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Re: The bad news during our June 19 - 26 cruise
[Re: warren460]
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07/04/2019 09:37 PM
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Warren its like all lighting strikes and near misses and there is no proven solution as of yet. Sometimes in an anchorage the only boat struck was the one that was grounded yet the opposite occurs in other strikes. I’ve personally been in a few heavy lightening storms and have been lucky to have lost just my radio and lighting the instant the lightening flashed. There’s a lot of stories out there where through hulls have been blown out and who knows about some boats that were lost at sea...Maybe the Propane tanks were struck.. Ouch!
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Re: The bad news during our June 19 - 26 cruise
[Re: Christo]
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07/05/2019 09:45 AM
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When I raced Solings on Lake Michigan (back in the last century!) when we were caught out in a storm we would strip the main and hang the (aluminum) boom overboard and drag in the water. Our theory was the connection at the goose neck would make a ground from the tip of the mast to the water. Glad to report we never had to prove the theory - or - maybe it did prove the theory and we didn't know?!?
Another tip, put all hand held electronics (cell phones, GPS, radios, etc.) in the oven or microwave. That is a natural Farady Cage (look it up.)
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Re: The bad news during our June 19 - 26 cruise
[Re: jagmansr]
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07/05/2019 09:47 AM
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When I raced Solings on Lake Michigan (back in the last century!) when we were caught out in a storm we would strip the main and hang the (aluminum) boom overboard and drag in the water. Our theory was the connection at the goose neck would make a ground from the tip of the mast to the water. Glad to report we never had to prove the theory - or - maybe it did prove the theory and we didn't know?!?
Another tip, put all hand held electronics (cell phones, GPS, radios, etc.) in the oven or microwave. That is a natural Farady Cage (look it up.)
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Re: The bad news during our June 19 - 26 cruise
[Re: Kunderwater]
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07/05/2019 11:16 AM
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I was skipper on Honu Kai the mono from Seabbacrical. We lost wind,depth,speed but GPS still worked,bow thruster control had loud alarm going off but still worked.Never came to mind to kill any breakers. Seemed like a light shower.
We had nearly the same issues, i.e., depth, speed, wind sensors, and auto pilot were all dead but GPS working. Bow thruster control with alarm but I didn't recognize the high pitched noise as coming from it - thought it was coming from my Yanmar controls as it was showing a "check engine" warning. I got nearly all of the instruments back on line and learned something useful in the process. Capt. Jay suggested I unplug one sensor at a time from the NMEA 2000 switch located behind the VHF radio panel (45 Beneteau). Evidently if you have a bad sensor the NMEA 2000 network will not boot up. So you yank out one connector at a time out of the switch until the network boots. Or I suppose you can start the opposite - unplug them all and plug each one back in until it no longer boots. We had a bad transducer. Once it was unplugged the wind, speed, and auto pilot came back to life. A little annoying not to have depth but we were going to places we already know pretty well. And because of the missing depth we skipped Anegada.
Life's short - sail more!
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Re: The bad news during our June 19 - 26 cruise
[Re: polaris]
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07/06/2019 12:25 PM
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One more thing I should have done differently: my physician friend reminded me that we should have made a more careful check on everybody that they were OK, even if they slept through it. Another tip, put all hand held electronics (cell phones, GPS, radios, etc.) in the oven or microwave. That is a natural Farady Cage (look it up.) Yet another tip: don't turn the microwave on. ;-)
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