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I read the following on another forum and have a few questions
regarding same:

"I don't know anyone else doing this and I really don't know why since
it saves money and works great. Everybody should know that with a
metal boat there is no reason to use backstay insulators at all. With
a good ground plane, you can use a ground-fed antenna. Take the
antenna coax, run the shield to the rail (or railing if properly
grounded) and then run the center of the coax up about 6 feet to the
grounded backstay.
...
Could the end feed be from the other end (top of the mast) with the
tuner inside the mast (to avoid a wire from the deck to the backstay?

If the backstay is also electrically connected to the mast, you could even
feed the mast istelf form the inside.

Meindert