lightning

Has anyone experienced a lightning strike on a boat? My boat was moored in my harbor for two weeks without use. Two weeks previous I brought the boat right up to the mooring (outboard) and called for the launch on my radio. When I returned to the boat my radio didn't work (had to trash it)...

My boat was struck by lightning while on the hard in Guatemala. It struck the VHF antennas on the masthead, vaporizing them and then apparently traveled through heavy ground wire to the rest of the ground system on the boat, taking out most electronic components; even the ones that were...