The randomness of lightning damage

Couple of weeks ago, lightning struck about 300 yards from my slip, off the bow on my 53. No damage. Ten minutes later as I was working in the ER of the 110 I run, docked in the next slip l heard an electrical short coming out of the corner with atlas shore power system.

I quickly shut down shore and switched to gen even though power was still on. Turned out the lightning strike blew two of the four capacitors on the system. On other damage. Atlas came a few days later to replace all four.

fast forward to yesterday where my other neighbor (50’ Beneteau sailboat) on the other side of my boat told me his bow thruster, generator, plotters and a few more things are all dead. He hasn’t been on the boat in a couple of weeks so the damage had to have occurred with the strike that took out my capacitors