[C320-list] New Boat - Instruments

[Scott Thompson]

Annie:  Transducers are cheap compared to the rest of your electronics.  
Letting the pre-installed transducer dictate the other choices is 
letting the tail wag the dog.  Consider purchasing an easy-to-install 
inside-the-hull transducer for your Garmin device and just disconnect 
the Raymarine one.  The Garmin transducer can't connect to the Seatalk 
bus and will require that you run a new wire to the instrument pod.  The 
solid laminate and flat bottom of a 320 hull makes an ideal combination 
for an in-hull transducer.  No new holes in the bottom required!

Annie Bennett wrote:
> Alec, what made you choose Tick Tack instruments for your new FIGMENT III
> #1081?  I hadn't heard of them but have now had a look at the website.
>
> Our old boat had a vertical pedestal but the new boat has the bent pedestal.
> A Raymarine transducer is already installed.  For instruments we are
> thinking of just having a square instrument housing (a Navpod CP100) with a
> Garman GPS 178, Raymarine Wind and Raymarine Depth.   That will fill the pod
> so we thought the autopilot (Coursemaster) could then can go off to the side
> of the boat.
>
> The reason is so I can do away with instruments towards the top of the
> pedestal as I find with the tall pedestal, they really block my vision.
>
> I'd thought we might be able to get the Garmin chartplotter to display depth
> and therefore do away with the depth sounder but it won't read the Raymarine
> transducer.  I particularly want a Garmin chartplotter becaue it seems to be
> the only one that will give you the ETA at the final destination as opposed
> to just the next Waypoint.  Any comments from anyone on the list on the set
> up before it's too late!  
>
> Annie Bennett
> Topcat #1073
>  
>
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