On Sat, 17 Mar 2007 06:17:03 GMT, "barry lawson"
wrote:

In Australia anyway, the main thing is to not play golf, as this is where
the statistics say you are most likely to be killed by lightening, even
worse than shark attack.

Same thing here in south Florida. We usually have several fatal golf
course incidents every year.

So golfing is bad, good thing since my game is terrible anyway.

Regarding the boat, a well grounded mast, shrouds and stays seems to
be the consensus and jibes with my experience. If caught out, staying
away from metalic objects as much as possible seems prudent. That
said, I had a friend who was on a fully crewed 35 footer that was
struck twice in one weekend. All of the electronics were toast but no
one was injured at all, and there was no damage to the hull.

Every once in a while you hear about someone with a plastic thru hull
transducer getting blown out by lightning.