Mary Lou,
Those blasted pink elephants are a real hazard and I try to avoid them as
much as possible. If they catch up to me they stay for hours and drink most
of my rum. They are nothing more than cheap mooches.
Rummy
In a message dated 7/24/2009 12:24:54 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
mtroy at atlanticbb.net writes:
Rummy,
What you need on you boat is all so dependent on where you sail. The
Chesapeake barges - usually a tug pushing a barge but sometimes a tug
towing one. They can move very quickly when they are empty. There is
nothing like being "safely" out of the channel - well out of the
channel I might add - and having a push barge head straight for you.
He eventually turned off and headed down the bay but not before we
had fired up the motor and started motoring for all we were worth to
get to the shallows and out of his path.
What do you do about the pink elephants? Or aren't they a hazard?
Mary Lou
At 11:51 AM 7/24/2009, you wrote:
>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:
> >Thanks all. I believe the Norcross Hawkeye is what I was looking
> >for at a reasonable price without drilling through the hull. As
> >Rummy points out there are a lot of new and improved depth and knot
> >set up that connect wirelessly; however, they bust the budget at
> >well over 6 or 7 hundred dollars.
> >
> >We used Stan's centerboard depth sounder on our '86 and it works
> >very well. We've just become "gizmo happy."
> >
> >Appreciate the help.
> >
> >Bob
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >________________________________
> >From: Ron Singerman <sail at tds.net>
> >To: The Rhodes 22 Email List <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
> >Sent: Friday, July 24, 2009 7:12:29 AM
> >Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Thru Hull Depth Sounders
> >
> >Bob and Kathy,
> >
> >I have the Norcross Hawkeye "in hull" depth meter ( about $95). It is
> >mounted in the lazarette and the read out is on the starboard
bulkhead. I
> >did the installation myself and it was fairly easy. The instructions
>that
> >Norcross supplies are excellent.
> >
> >Fair winds,
> >
> > >>ron<<
> >S/V Serenity
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Bob and Kathy Quinn" <bobandkathyr22 at bellsouth.net>
> >To: "The Rhodes 22 Email List" <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
> >Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2009 9:05 PM
> >Subject: [Rhodes22-list] Thru Hull Depth Sounders
> >
> >
> >Need some help. As we have been off of the list for some time, I am
having
> >difficulty locating the Q&A section. We are specifically looking for a
> >recommendation on a thru hull depth sounder (one that does not need a
hole
> >drilled in the hull). We know that we have read about them on this
list in
> >the past but neglected to save the information. Sorry.
> >
> >Any help appreciated. Many thanks.
> >
> >Bob and Kathy
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