Re: Mounting Fish-Finder Transducer and Cruising Spinnaker

Rye Gewalt (ryeg@vais.net)
Wed, 12 May 1999 06:01:41 -0400


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J,J;

I succumbed to your advice and expoxyed the transducer to the hull just forward of the portapotty (as suggested by Eric Peterson) and it's working like a champ. That's sort of a hard place to get to so I thought the transducer would be safer there. Thanks for the advice -- I'll buy another transducer if I need to use the unit on something else.

So much for my elegant approach [see http://www.vais.net/~ryeg/Transducer.htm ] --- this one gave me a nice afternoon on the water rather than messing around with all the complications I had planned.

As Eric said in an earlier message "You can also set it to chirp when the fishies are detected, and the 128 can even display three different size fish symbols, depending upon how large the unit thinks the fish is. This is more entertaining than we might imagine." ...and he's right. It's great fun to see how the fish tend to congregate and how
many bumps and drop offs there are on the river bottom. ...Better that TV.

I did get out in light wind yesterday with my cruising spinnaker and it's really great fun. It doesn't allow the boat to point up as well as other sails, but its great for other points of sail and it looks real sexy (well, maybe not sexy, but damm colorful -- at my age colorful seems more appropriate). I have a lot of messing around to do as it
seems to be the predominant sail and tends to mess up the performance of the main when the "slot" gets small. In light winds you can hold both the sheet and the clew lines in your hands and feel when the sail is pulling optimally -- kind of like a kite. I do have one little rope burn where the wind came up unexpectedly, but I am getting smarter.
The sail is so light that it will "stand out" in really light winds even when it's hardly pulling -- which give the effect of sailing and frustrates all of the other guys whose heavier sails are just flopping around.

Regards All
Rye Gewalt
1990 HMS '19
Springfield, VA

"J.J.Falkanger" wrote:

> > It might be interesting to those of you who have, or are planning to
> > have, a cheap sonar on your boats. I put it up mostly for comments and
> > suggestions before I get busy and actually glue the thing into my 19'.
> >
> > I tried out the Humminbird 100SX with the transducer temporarily mounted
> > on the transom and I am really amazed at how much technology $99 can buy
> > these days. FM.
>
> Rye,
>
> No need to mess around so much! Just run the cable down to the hatch on the rear quarterberth, epoxy it in where it won't get in the way, and rock 'n roll! Shouldn't be much that can go wrong, if you wriggle it down properly and get the air out. Use a non-shrinking epoxy, so the winter doesn't mess it up. By far the coolest thing on my boat!
>
> J.J. Falkanger
> Cary, NC
> P-19 #792 "Fozzguppy"
>
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J,J;

I succumbed to your advice and expoxyed the transducer to the hull just forward of the portapotty (as suggested by Eric Peterson) and it's working like a champ.  That's sort of a hard place to get to so I thought the transducer would be safer there.  Thanks for the advice -- I'll buy another transducer if I need to use the unit on something else.

So much for my elegant approach [see  http://www.vais.net/~ryeg/Transducer.htm  ]  --- this one gave me a nice afternoon on the water rather than messing around with all the complications I had planned.

As Eric said in an earlier message   "You can also set it to chirp when the fishies are detected, and the 128 can even display three different size fish symbols, depending upon how large the unit thinks the fish is. This is more entertaining than we might imagine."  ...and he's right. It's great fun to see how the fish tend to congregate and how many bumps and drop offs there are on the river bottom.  ...Better that TV.

I did get out in light wind yesterday with my cruising spinnaker and it's really great fun.  It doesn't allow the boat to point up as well as other sails, but its great for other points of sail and it looks real sexy (well, maybe not sexy, but damm colorful -- at my age colorful seems more appropriate).   I have a lot of messing around to do as it seems to be the predominant sail and tends to mess up the performance of the main when the "slot" gets small.  In light winds you can hold both the sheet and the clew lines in your hands and feel when the sail is pulling optimally -- kind of like a kite.  I do have one little rope burn where the wind came up unexpectedly, but I am getting smarter.  The sail is so light that it will "stand out" in really light winds even when it's hardly pulling -- which give the effect of sailing and frustrates all of the other guys whose heavier sails are just flopping around.

Regards All
Rye Gewalt
1990 HMS '19
Springfield, VA
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

"J.J.Falkanger" wrote:

> It might be interesting to those of you who have, or are planning to
> have, a cheap sonar on your boats.  I put it up mostly for comments and
> suggestions before I get busy and actually glue the thing into my 19'.
>
> I tried out the Humminbird 100SX with the transducer temporarily mounted
> on the transom and I am really amazed at how much technology $99 can buy
> these days.  FM.

Rye,

No need to mess around so much!  Just run the cable down to the hatch on the rear quarterberth, epoxy it in where it won't get in the way, and rock 'n roll!  Shouldn't be much that can go wrong, if you wriggle it down properly and get the air out.  Use a non-shrinking epoxy, so the winter doesn't mess it up.  By far the coolest thing on my boat!

J.J. Falkanger
Cary, NC
P-19 #792  "Fozzguppy"

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