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Tomas Kruska
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Initially Posted - 10/31/2013 :  02:30:52  Show Profile  Visit Tomas Kruska's Homepage
I'm planning new boat and one of the first most important things to buy is a depth sounder instrument.

To save some money I'm thinking about to buy just a chartplotter with sonar like Lowrance Elite-5 which can serve as a depth sounder too. It should have some nice features like anchor alarm etc.

My question is, do you have any experience with such similar devices if it can serve as a full featured depth sounder? Shallow water alarms, keel depth offset and big depth number on the map screen?

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shnool
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Response Posted - 10/31/2013 :  03:32:20  Show Profile  Visit shnool's Homepage
A lot of folks are going this route, and I cannot see a downside to it. One device instead of 2 has to have advantages! I personally still just have depth, knot, and a compass.

Several Capri 22 folks liked their plotters/sounders, most I have seen were on a flip out mount in the companionway.
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Tomas Kruska
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Response Posted - 10/31/2013 :  06:54:56  Show Profile  Visit Tomas Kruska's Homepage
Just found out that Lowrance has the [url="http://www.lowrance.com/en-US/Support/Product-Emulators/"]PC emulators[/url] of their devices. For example the depth number can be pretty much configured.
They have shallow alarm and anchor alarms.

I'm still not decided where to put it, but it would be nice to have it flush mounted. One downside of it is quite a big hole in the cockpit.

What I know is that I will try to install that transom sounder inside of the hull. Fish finding is not goal for me, I only need the depth info.
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shnool
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Response Posted - 10/31/2013 :  08:30:12  Show Profile  Visit shnool's Homepage
I dunno, I'd steer away from making the hole for it (if you can)... only because it's VERY likely if the device fails, you will not find another the same size/shape. the old style round gauges were more consistently sized at least.
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Davy J
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Response Posted - 10/31/2013 :  08:48:55  Show Profile
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">I'm still not decided where to put it, but it would be nice to have it flush mounted.<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></font id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">
I use an older Garmin chartplotter/sounder. The main chart page is configurable. I have settings showing speed, depth, ETE, ETA. It's mounted on a RAM mount on the inside of the companionway and I swing it out, into view, while sailing. It's a simple matter to swing it back into the cabin when we are done.
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