[alberg30] Re: in hull transducer

[Pete]

Gordon,
    I have an in hull transducer (#169) and it works ok.  I can't say much about the loss of depth since I sail in Lake Erie.   However, up to 80' I don't have a problem.
    
    Pete-----Original Message-----
    From: Gordon E. White <gewhite at crosslink.net>
    To: alberg30 at onelist.com <alberg30 at onelist.com>
    Date: Monday, December 07, 1998 5:13 PM
    Subject: [alberg30] Re: bottom 
    
    
    One more "bottom" question: 
        My depth sounder died, bad transponder. Now that Brigadoon II  is out of the water I am replacing it. The one I had been using was a Standard Electronics thru-hull type with a nice faired block on the bottom, but after removing the nut on the inside it does not slide out easily and will require probably destroying it to remove. I think it is a little larger than the current "Standard" part. Before blasting it out and possibly ending up with a hole in the bottom that currently-available units will not fit, I have been looking at replacements. 
        There are available both the old-style thru-hull plastic units and a puck with a beveled edge you glue to the inside of the hull that reads through the fiberglass. Apparently the inside the hull units work ok except for possibly a little deep-water loss of depth sensitivity. 
        However, the Alberg hulls being heavier than the later Clorox bottles I'd like to know who has a sounder transponder that reads on the inside of the hull and how well it works? 
        My boat also had a prior owner's home-made inside the hull transponder that was no longer in use (wire cut off) so I am suspicious. 
                                                                    Thanks, 
                                                                                        Gordon White, A 275 

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