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Thanks all. I believe the Norcross Hawkeye is what I was looking

Mary Lou,
I think the fish finder is possibly the best depth finder you can have.  
Knowing the contour and also being able to find the fish is sometimes 
important  when the wind dies. I can't remember ever seeing a barge on Lake 
Hartwell. I  suppose it could happen, but I haven't drank enough rum yet to see one. 
Pink  elephants are a common site on our lake.

Rummy

In a message dated 7/24/2009 10:29:13 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
mtroy at atlanticbb.net writes:

It's  been a long time since I've made this comment but I will put it 
out there  again for those who have never seen it. For the rest this 
will sound like  a broken record. The "centerboard depth sounder" is 
all well and good and  in fact works better than a lazarette mounted 
depth sounder IF all you  want to do is keep from running aground. 
However a depth sounder has many  more uses and for these other uses, 
it doesn't matter where it is located  - it can be   forward under the 
head, in the lazarette or where  ours is located - on the transom. Our 
favorite uses for our depth sounder  are: to see what the depth is 
where we plan to anchor and for  navigating  - knowing when you are in 
or out of a dredged channel,  working your way down a coast or around 
a point by keeping to a specific  depth contour on a chart, making a 
turn for a mark when you cross into a  specific depth in order to 
avoid a hazard, trying to figure out if that  barge that is way out of 
the channel will have to turn or run aground  before he gets to where 
you are - and because ours is a fishfinder -  seeing the bottom 
contours. If we had it programmed to do so, we could  even see if 
there were fish below but we don't. On the Chesapeake, we are  rarely 
concerned about running aground but we are always navigating and  use 
the depth sounder constantly.

Mary Lou
1991 R22  Fretless
Rock Hall, MD

At 09:04 AM 7/24/2009, you  wrote:

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