sounder shots for championruby and glastronomic
Submitted by scotto on Wed, 2011-07-27 08:15
i couldnt put pics up in the last post (fishfinders in dinghys), so here they are.
its a raymarine A50D sounder/plotter. completely waterproof unit, so a bit of spray doesnt hurt it, but its mounted below the side of the boat anyway, so it shouldnt cop much driving spray.
the bracket is made from a 2mm thick bit of aluminium (available from any 50km/ph sign in your neighborhood....), and was bent up in the shed, in a vice. no need to heat or weld.
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till
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Neat job!
Neat job!
Curious though, you reckon if you made the mating face bigger, you could just glue it on?
scotto
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mating face?
is that the look you get when getting punished by a big fish.....???!!!!
yeah till, if you mean where the sounder sits on the bracket, that would probably be ok to glue (mine is screw fixed though), but where the bracket connects to the hull, i wouldnt trust any glue to support it, as a bit of chop or swell at speed could potentially shock-load that into falling off.
till
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More like where the bracket
More like where the bracket joins the tinny. Some great glues available now and saves drilling holes and avoids galvanic corrosion too.
Dicey
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Nice Dinghy! that front of
Nice Dinghy! that front of the bow where the metal plate with the hole to store stuff in did you make that?
scotto
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Nah mate
It's a savage 4.18 kestrel, and it comes as standard. It's a good hidey hole for keeping electrical and other stuff dry.
fisherking
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Sellys All clear or Silastik
Sellys All clear or Silastik guys. That'll hold it on. Sticks like sh*t to a blanket.
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championruby
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thanks for that mate, nice
thanks for that mate, nice dinghy.
How have you mounted the transducer
scotto
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Cheers
I'll have to take some more shots tonight of the tranny for you mate. It wasn't hard to do at all.