Man, those big sparks in the sky are baaaaddd news!
I'll never forget once when I was out on the atlantic and I started hearing this buzzing noise...at first I thought it was my VHF radio so I turned it off but the noise continued...then I realized it was coming from the rods stored in the vertical holders in the console on my boat!

Yikes!! All those rods got laid down in the bottom of the boat, I dropped the vhf antenna and boogied out of there!!

It turned out to be quite a ride...we got caught out in a nasty storm, the compass literally started spinning in circles and all sorts of other fun stuff. I finally just found two large party boats and parked myself in between them so that at least I wasn't the tallest thing around for miles and miles.