T&T: depth finders

[Keith]

The problem is turbulence. If you put it too far forward, air and water 
turbulence will make the readout useless. After all, at cruising speed, how 
many seconds does it take your stern to pass where your bow just was? 
Probably faster than your reaction time unless you're doing nothing but 
watching the depth sounder!. Follow the manufacturer's directions for 
placement.

Now, there are forward scanning sonars that can look ahead for you. They are 
pretty neat, and expensive, but work best in deep water. The geometry makes 
them useless if you cruise in shallow water anyway, like I do here on the 
Gulf Coast. When I'm in 8-10' of water, they can't even see to the bow of 
the boat. Better for boats that are cruising in deep water.


Keith
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rob Zanussi" <rzanussi@shaw.ca>


> All this talk got me thinking about the best place to mount the 
> transducer.
> I would suspect that placing it as far forward as possible would be the
> best. Afterall, wouldn't you want as much notice as possible that the
> bottom is coming up faster than you like it too?
>
> Secondly, what is the wisdom of having one forward and one aft? If there 
> is
> a good reason, are there any models that allow either a dual readout or
> that you can switch from fore to aft?