Originally Posted by
GregLaROCHE
While we’re on the subject of antennas, here’s an interesting experience I had. I used to have a steel sailboat. I once took the aluminum mast out so I could go under low bridges. The mast was arranged on top of the boat setting on wooden blocks. As I was passing at 90* under some very high tension wires and I could feel an electrical current. I quickly took my hand off the mast and it stopped. I’m pretty sure that the forty some foot mast acted like an antenna. The current flowed from the insulated mast, through me into the bronze steering wheel, that was bolted to the steel hull to ground in the water.