From John Mackie, John William 37VT68
This morning was overcast with possible thunderstorms in the afternoon so we departed early for a long run. The thunderstorms caught us coming up to Lockwoods Folly Inlet with heavy rain and thunder. The crack of lightning that got us blew off the anchor light, came down the port stay and traveled the lifeline to the center stanchion and through the tv antenna that is mounted there. It went through the tv and into the power cord blowing the tv's power unit apart. In the pilot house all electronics except the computer and radar went dead. A flash came out of the blue tooth for the auto pilot remote and entered a battery operated clock. After turning around and heading to a dock the electronics came back one by one. We only lost the blue tooth, VHF radio, all the instruments and the refrigerator, solar panel controller, inverter remote, controller, alternator remote regulator and bilge pump switch. I have a fridge guy coming in the morning and I have isolated the problem to the control board, I had a spare alternator regulator and have that in place. I have determined the solar controller is done for, the inverter charges and inverts and the remote works, but the indicator lights do not. The salon AC thermostat will turn the fan on but that's it. Still lots to fix and will have a long list of items to bring back when we go home the end of the month for 2 weeks.
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