Have you tried to buy from Sail Net ?

[HideAway]

I've been trying to buy a depth finder from them with no success.   They are not responding to emails and nobody answers the phone.   Has anyone had this experience? 

[Craig Weis]

It's a 4 day holiday weekend for a lot of people. Thursday may have been the last day of the week. I had a Sail Net catalog but tossed it. Too expensive. And I stopped at the booth at a All Sail Boat Show, Chicago. Nothing I haven't seen before. I don't buy nothing on line with a credit card. But I do call and order for Model "A" stuff. I have never put a credit card number 'out there'. Too many crazies, like me.
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[kickingbug1]

   go to bass pro---buy an eagle lcr for about 80 bucks you wont be sorry

[HideAway]

Thanks everyone. 

Sailnet had a pretty good price but more importantly, to me the assurance that it was a true in hull transducer rather than a thru hull or a transom mount.   After much research I ordered it in July but since our sailing season doesn't really get under way until October I wasn't too concerned.  Besides I wasn't all that keen on installing anything on a boat this time of year.

I bought one from West Marine with the assurance that alhough it was a transom mount  it would  shoot thru the hull.   I talked to Bruce Bingham about that and he said absolutly not.  So I took it back.

David sent me a photo of his mounted in the bilge.  I hadn't thought of mounting it there but it sure looks easier than installing it under my water tank in the bow of my 23.   I prefer Garmin anyway since our gps is from them.

Thanks again Matt

[Craig Weis]

HideAway, check the inside and outside hull pictures in my Frappr link below. Shows the two~2 inch instrument heads inside the boat about 6" in front of the keel and centered just off the centerline of the keel. That would be for the Raymarine ST-40 Bi-data unit. Those holes were drilled from the outside in after a careful S.W.A.G. calculation. Almost nothing interrupts the water flow under the hull.

Access is through the 16" x 16" hatch [same size as the other two hatches under the vee birth cushion.] I added in front of the compression post, also this void is great for storage under the vee birth once a little bit of the 'bang' foam was cut/ground away from the hull's bottom.

The next model up is the Raymarine ST-60 and will also drive a tiller/wheel using it's 'SeaTalk' whatever. I don't have enough juice for that fancy stuff.

The 40 works great.
Once in a while I need to pull the paddle wheel because some pesky zebra muscle has moved into the void of the paddle wheel [speed sensor] and stops the wheel from spinning. A flapper valve stops the water from blowing in. A matching [line up a notch] paddle wheel plug is inserted while holding and cleaning out the zebra family from the paddle wheel head. I get about a Dixie cup of water entering the boat during this 'in-out-in' process and sop that up with a towel. No big deal.

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