Any thoughts?

How about a steel hulled and decked boat? Mine has a deck-stepped
mast (actually two) with a steel compression post under them. Is the
lightening likely to hit the steel deck and go around the outside like
a Faraday's (sp?) cage, or is it more likely to make the jump to the
compression post and keep going straight to the steel keel?

Lee Huddleston
s/v Truelove