Yes, it took us 5 months to sort our lightning claim, but 4.5 of those months had nothing to do with replacing and installing the new instrumentation. That took 2-3 weeks maximum. It would have been the same amount of "dead" time had we had structural damage or rig damage rather than only electronics damage - the "dead time" was just the wheels turning on the claim process.

Personally, I view our wind instruments as critical equipment. But with a catamaran, mechanical windvanes are out of the question and knowing precise windspeed has more importance than for monos.

And we are loving our new ultrasonic wind/weather instrument. Half the cost of replacing our old whirlybird, provides more data, provides better data and no moving parts to break off. I don't know why they even make whirlybird ones still.

Hey Dave, are mechanical windvanes really less prone to breaking?

Mark