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Date Posted: - Saturday - 02/ 7/09 - 2:47pm
Author: Dan M32 #36 Independence
Subject: thru hulls
In reply to: Dan M32 #36 Independence 's message, "Thru hulls" on - Friday - 02/ 6/09 - 11:10pm

Kathy,
Sounds like we have the same setup, maybe that was how they were sold. Seems a bit mickey mouse. I,m thinking about fairing in a small more or less level flat place to mount the two sending units in.
It was a nice trailer. George let me use it to haul the boat from Salt Lake to San Juan Island and in exchange I then found a buyer for the trailer. A guy From Atlanta,Ga. flew out to Seattle, bought an old 1 ton truck and pulled it back.
Dan

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[> [> [> Airmar in hull transducer -- Jared Kibele, - Monday - 02/ 9/09 - 5:11pm

I just installed an Airmar in-hull transducer. It was under $100, glued to the hull with a silcone sealant, and works great with my Garmin sounder and chartplotter. Here's the airmar link: http://www.airmartechnology.com/airmar2005/ex20/RMProducts/ElectCat.asp?ProdID=52&Man=All&PageNo=99

That being said, you may be able to use your old transducer with a new sounder. ...it depends on how old the transducer is. Most of them are dual frequency these days.


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[> [> [> [> Wow. That's cool -- Randall, - Monday - 02/ 9/09 - 7:40pm

I don't see anywhere a spec for the thickness of hull it can pass through and worry when it says "good for racing sailboats up to 25'". Thin hulled little bastards! But you're using it, so all must be good, no? Where did you position it?

My issue is more w/the readouts. Either they have gotten smaller or my eyes are less strong, but at night I can barely make out what they're telling me. So it's time for an upgrade...at least in font size!

Anyone use the "new wireless" units?


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[> [> [> [> [> Thick hull -- Jared Kibele, - Thursday - 02/19/09 - 11:41am

Hi Randall. I mounted my transducer under the aft-most drawer in the port settee. It turned out that was the only place I could find a 22 degree or less deadrise angle (this model of transducer can mount on a surface with 0 - 22 degrees). From my understanding, hull thickness shouldn't really matter. Sonar signals have problems crossing boundaries between different types of material but shouldn't attenuate much based on the thickness of the fiberglass. So a thick solid fiberglass hull works fine but a thin cored hull wouldn't work.

My transducer is hooked into a garmin sounder box (gsd 22: https://buy.garmin.com/shop/shop.do?pID=288) and the sounder is hooked to a garmin 4208 chartplotter (https://buy.garmin.com/shop/shop.do?pID=8113). The 4208 also works as my radar display. You can display the depth soundings in a whole slew of different ways. The whole mess is also hooked up with my autopilot.

...I went a little nuts with the electronics. I like that stuff.


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[> [> [> Depth sounders -- Dan M32 #36 Independence, - Tuesday - 02/10/09 - 1:20am

I'm with you Randal in reguards to the small display size.I recently put a Humminbird sounder in my San Juan 24 and it's about 2" in dia. and it's hard to read sometimes. It replaced a 5" dia. Standard Horizon that stopped working after only 6 yrs. I wanted to replace it with one the same size but apparently all the instrument makers got together and decided it would be funny if they stopped making 5" dia. to see what people would do with all tose 5" holes in their boats. I had to make a plastic filler for the hole. I think the 2" instruments are intended to go in a dashboard like on a powerboat. Anyway the transducer is a glued in hull type. I've only used the boat a few times since installing it and I've gotten some wacky readings. The old one was a Standard Horizon with a in hull transducer that was in mineral oil and it worked great until it stopped. I was considering going to a fishfinder but they're all rectangular and not made to go in a bulkhead. Looking on line for depth sounders recently( I'm starting to research all the things I'll need for my Mariner ) I noticed there is a lot of transducers for sale w/o the instrument so I guess some must be interchangable as long as they work on the same frequency. I also noticed that some are made with the transducer at an angle in the thu hull which is good but they are expensive. One more thing while I'm venting, why do alot of the new sounders read in tenths of a foot? Why could it possibly matter that it's 276.3 ft. deep?
Dan


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[> [> [> [> Ha! Tenths of feet -- Randall, - Tuesday - 02/10/09 - 1:51am

Thanks Dan. It's funny to be learning about many things--including eye site--from Murre. Only a couple years ago and while working in tight quarters, I noticed that I couldn't quite see the fastener nor the hole I was attempting to guide it into. I thought at first I'd inhaled too many epoxy fumes. But then Joanna reminded me I'm over 40. One can always depend on Joanna for the important stuff--like putting me in my place.

Wacky readings? I get those from my through hull unit...due to really muddy water...transponder out of the water, etc. But what do you mean by whacky?

Tenths of feet. That's funny. Now, let's see, I draw 3.8 feet and the depth is 276.3, so how many tenths of minutes till I run aground?


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[> [> [> [> [> thru hulls -- Dan M32 #36 Independence, - Tuesday - 02/10/09 - 12:40pm

Randall,
By wacky readings I meant that as I was sailing the soundings seemed ok and then they would fluctuate wildly. I knew It wasn't reading the bottom accurately. I never had that problem with any of the other sounders on any of my past boats. I know that in certain circumstances sounders will jump around. When I was sailing from Panama to Equador last June on a Passport 40 the sounder would occasionaly show 50 or 80 feet but we were 300 miles off shore. The captain said it was temp. changes. I just not ready to trust the new sounder yet. I think a hole though the hull is probably the best for a transducer.
Dan


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