What do you think caused this ?

[Orla]

I know where when and what happened here but never seen it before, thought folks might be interested.

 

[[32511]]

A friendly kiss from a Great White?

 

[nimbusgb]

'Hangar rash' ? get dropped off / fell off the props?

 

[earlybird]

Very much a guess, but was it an anchor, an electric windlass and a careless operator?

 

[islandsailor]

complete guess did it hit the pontoon where the piles are housed?

 

[Dipper]

The glass fibres in the anchor locker look burnt - lightning?

 

[MarkJohnson12345]

A badly aimed warning shot from HMS Cornwall?

 

[Ludd]

It be the dreaded polyester and epoxy beetle---- and they might even inhabit Seaport!

 

[Fr J Hackett]

It does have the look of internally generated damage, one would think a gas explosion would have caused a lot more damage, perhaps exploding battery or something simmilar

 

[PaulJS]

It looks expensive!

I've no idea, but will guess at drying out on top of something sharp and unyielding...
Please tell the full story.

 

[P4Paul]

I agree with Dipper's suggestion - lightning

 

[David_Jersey]

My vote is also for lightening.

 

[Trop Cher]

Done by lightning while sailing on Loch Ness. Went to have a look at the boat myself this afternoon.
Here's how the local press reported it.
http://www.inverness-courier.co.uk/...ning_strike_halts_round-the-world_cruise.html

 

[bilbobaggins]

I know where when and what happened

A frenzied attack by a CalMac?

Edited by Dan - bit risqué Bil!

 

[Spyro]

My money would be on Lightning damage, especially with the marks around the seacocks and transducer. As for the damage at the front it may have something to do with the anchorchain lying piled up in the locker. Any other evidence of damage such as fried electrics/starter motor/alternator or radio?

 

[Orla]

Yes lightnings correct my wife took the pictures, as others have said happened in loch ness.
how do you stop this happening to yourself?

 

[photodog]

Dont stand under a tree.

 

[Anthony]

Yes lightnings correct my wife took the pictures, as others have said happened in loch ness.
how do you stop this happening to yourself?

Its not an easy thing to prevent against, some measures can be taken but not simple; people have been trying in places like Florida for a long time, there is no easy & cheap solution.

The cracks around the skin fittings are very indicative of a lightening strike, if I ever thought my boat had taken a hit it would be straight out the water to check it.

Ants

 

[mikehibb]

The glass fibres in the anchor locker look burnt - lightning?

Tend to agree, all other damage is water line or adjacent to sea cocks ( metallic) and near water line, ie ground plane for a strike to disperse through.

 

[fireball]

We had a side strike on the last boat - electronics fried and the antenna in the cockpit!
But as we didn't bond any of the seacocks and had no hull anode we had no structual problems....