On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 03:20:49PM -0500, ken wrote: > > Some glue the transducer to the hull, I did that at first, but it was a > REAL PITA when the unit failed and I had to remove it!
I've always used the cheap (i.e., disposable) 'ducers that are included with the average depth sounder rather than the $300 and up "through-hull" variety for this. A nice sharp wood chisel will pop them right off when you want them gone. By contrast, I've just replaced the through-hull transducer on "Ulysses", while I was hauled out; that puppy had been glued inside a steel pipe with Aqua-Mend (great stuff, can be applied underwater; I definitely recommend carrying it on board. Cheap at Home Depot, too.) Took me a good hour to hammer and chisel it out, but I had no choice: "Ulysses" had been resheathed (i.e., I've got a double hull) - and you can't shoot across an air gap, darn it. (In other, unrelated news - we've just pulled into Beaufort, NC, having made excellent time almost every day since Georgetown, SC. Our new, custom-made keel cooler is working amazingly well, and we're shooting for Norfolk before the week is up. Hey, 'bella - we're finally coming to your town! :) -- * Ben Okopnik * Editor-in-Chief, Linux Gazette * http://LinuxGazette.NET * _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
