I haven’t really validated all this for myself, but here is how the previous owner described the antenna setup on Deep Playa, #152.
“The Antenna Tuner is mounted forward in the Port cockpit locker. The antenna tuner has two connections. The antenna side is connected with #8 stranded wire to the chainplate for the main backstay. All the chainplates were bonded together (along with through hull fittings, etc.) with #8 stranded wire. The ground wire that was attached to that chainplate was removed and attached to the grounding terminal on the antenna tuner. What you end up with is a whole series of closed loops instead of a single separate isolated antenna wire and a large ground plane in the bilge. I cannot explain how it works, but it does.”
I think I’ve come to understand this as the antenna consists of a random length wire hooked to a really nice antenna tuner. The random length wire is made up of all of the standing rigging bonded together.
-p
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Thanks Dawn and Patrick!