OSYC, July 2004 - we saw a Hobie 20 that had been struck by lightning on the comp tip. The only cat with a comp tip on the beach (amongst over 20 other cats). The comptip was peeled open like a banana. You could see where the arc jumped from the mast down to the front cross bar, back through the port hull before emerging through the side of the hull to the trailer side roller. Completly burnt through the hull - not pretty.