Hi All-
I recently purchased a 1984 (I'm told, not sure how to verify) O'Day23 ... I'd like to add a depth sounding transducer in the bow (either a standalone depth-sounder or to plug into a to-be-bought GPS chartplotter...
The boat is in the water and I have neither the desire nor means to haul for this purpose, but would very much like the transducer mounted in the bow, not on the transom (no need to tell me I just passed shallow water as I have the centerboard for that)...
The units I'm looking at have in-hull transducers available that supposedly work fine through solid fiberglass, but not so much through wood cores... so they recommend cutting through to the outer-skin, which I don't see myself doing with the boat in the water...
Can anyone tell me for certain, I believe the deck is a balsa core, but what about the bottom?
Has anyone mounted these types of transducers to the inner skin who can report on performance? (ones I'm looking at are Hawkeye D10D or the Airmar ones for Garmin chartplotters)
I recently purchased a 1984 (I'm told, not sure how to verify) O'Day23 ... I'd like to add a depth sounding transducer in the bow (either a standalone depth-sounder or to plug into a to-be-bought GPS chartplotter...
The boat is in the water and I have neither the desire nor means to haul for this purpose, but would very much like the transducer mounted in the bow, not on the transom (no need to tell me I just passed shallow water as I have the centerboard for that)...
The units I'm looking at have in-hull transducers available that supposedly work fine through solid fiberglass, but not so much through wood cores... so they recommend cutting through to the outer-skin, which I don't see myself doing with the boat in the water...
Can anyone tell me for certain, I believe the deck is a balsa core, but what about the bottom?
Has anyone mounted these types of transducers to the inner skin who can report on performance? (ones I'm looking at are Hawkeye D10D or the Airmar ones for Garmin chartplotters)