No I haven't, but it occurred to me, this afternoon sailing on Rudyard Lake (not a lot of wind, so rowing practice on the way back) and when it started raining, that I might have been, given the weather forecast. And then I wondered whether there were particular dangers, and what, if anything, one could do about them.
So, apart from 'Don't do it in the first place", does anyone have any helpful advice? A car acts as a Faraday cage, and is a relatively very safe place do be in a thunderstorm. I suspect that an open epoxy-ply dinghy with a 15 ft CF mast definitely is NOT!
Many years ago, in the Harz Mountains in Germany, two anglers near us, sitting on the bank of a small lake with their lines dangling in the water, were killed in a sudden storm when their rods were struck. And, as a junior hospital doctor working in 'Casualty', I met a farm worker (with a septic hand) who I discovered had previously been struck by lightning - twice. But - sailing? Tony, surely you've managed to be struck as part of your 'rich tapestry' ? Do tell.
Michael