Advise or comment, please:
I've been looking at GPS/Plotter/Sounder units. Garmin offers some nice units, but the transducer is a transom mount. To opt for a thru-hull transducer adds 60% more to the cost, and you're stuck with a useless transom mount transducer.
Has anyone tried, or doesn anybody know a way, to make a transom mount usable on a Cape Dory? I suspect not.
Or is it better to have separate units for GPS and Sounder?
It's decision time. Any advice is helpful, and any suggestions are welcome.
Stan Freihofer
1981 CD 25 #794
Ft. Lauderdale
GPS/Plotter/Sounder advice please?
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Internal installation?
Is there a reason a transducer designed for transom mounting can't be mounted internally? (Not as a through hull, of course.)
Fair winds, Neil
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Boston, MA
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Re: Internal installation?
Seems to me to be the more desirable option. It's not likely that you would be concerned with depths more than 30 - 40 feet; then you can seal up the through hull.Neil Gordon wrote:Is there a reason a transducer designed for transom mounting can't be mounted internally? (Not as a through hull, of course.)
Dick