OK, if a freak accident and emergency room visit was not enough, we are packing up to leave early tomorrow for our trip home, and a big thunderstorm moves through the area. This one was a doozie. We buttoned up the boat, when the THWACK-BOOM came at the same time and strange things happened.
First, we got a bit tingly, then the fans that I had recently installed, all came on at full speed. Weird we think? Then we tried to turn the fans off, and they would not, they remained stuck on high speed. Then it dawned on us that we had been hit by lightning, or at least were in an induction zone around the strike. Holy schmidt, Wanda!!
I then did a survey of our electrical systems: motor, fine, started and ran, tick, radio, fine, tick, instruments, fine, tick, GPS, dead as a door nail. Double doo doo. So, it looks like we will need to enlist an electronics guy when we return to fix the GPS so that our chart plotter will work. Oh boy, more unexpected expenses!! As far as the fans are concerned, oh well, maybe just turn them on and off using the side circuits for the port and starboard reading lights until I get around to replacing them.
More fun and games.
Rob
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