bradleyj wrote:
Boy, I never expected to get so much great advice so fast!! I'm
digesting it all now. I've known since I started looking in to this
that I'd have an awesome ground plane, but I never gave much thought to
problems I'd have mounting the antenna. I'll let you know how I decide
to go. By the way, I tried to post photos of the boat, but this server
kept giving me errors. Here's a web site with a pictu

http://www.specmar.com/boatpics/boatpic55.jpg


Nice boat, but I would not use a deck-mounted whip since it would be
surrounded by metal: not only by the pilothouse, but by the sides as
well! Instead, consider a 16-foot whip mounted on an insulated support
at the level of the gunwhales and supported at the pilothouse roof. With
all the windows in the pilothouse, I wouldn't give losses a second thought.

Good luck.

Chuck