This will work fine. There was an article in Marine Electronics
just over a year ago that compared three systems:
1) Extensive mesh glassed into the hull of a brand new boat.
2) Ground connected to a seacock
3) Foil tossed over the rail.
4) 100' of foil trailing behind the boat.

Result: No real difference!

I have my radio and tuner connected to a scupper seacock via
foil. Works great!

Doug, k3qt
s/v Callista

"Vito" wrote in message
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Allan wrote:

I've been trying to unravel the mysteries of SSB grounding in yachts
and found some information about using resonant ground wires in an old
discussion group archive. snip

Gee guys, I thot salt water was such an excellent ground plane that
nothing else was needed. I had very good luck, with the XYL making
worldwird contacts, using a Butternut multiband vertical and 2 radials
for each band but folk wisdom says we'd have done much better with a
better ground plane - like over salt water. So what's the problem with
simply throwing one random-cut "radial" over the fantail and/or
"grounding" the rig and tuner to a convenient brass thru-hull??

73, K3DWW