[Public-List] Internal mounting of depth sounder??

[Stephen Gwyn]

Yeah, a lot of the water around here is pretty deep. My wife and I refer
to anything below 100 is known as the "dangerous double digits".

Further up the coast, up a fjord, on another boat, I've been on the
end of the bowsprit, in a waterfall, while the sounder near the stern
read 100+ feet.

SG

> Wow ! 100 foot warning?
>
> I regularly tack up the Chesapeake rivers with a paper chart and the 
> depth sounder.  I don’t rely on it for absolute depth but relative 
> depth. If the chart tells me it is a steep shoal, I tack on 10 feet. 
> It it’s a gradual shoal, 6 feet.
>
> I have mine external, flush with the hull. Of course it loses some of 
> the straight down return, but it’s plenty reliable .
>