05-05-2003, 07:03 PM
I did get to play with my pontoon boat this weekend. Unfortuneatly, it was just the frame, on the grass in front of my apartment. I am a notorious cheep-skate, er . . . perhaps "frugal," and will use whatever is in my possession to fix something up rather than spend $5 at a store.
Many of you saw my original setup for tranducer and display around a 5 gallon bucket (see one of the "cuda" posts on the board). Taking TD's advice, I've rethought the mounting of the "tranny." Once I get it all back out of my trunk, I'll post some pics later and try to describe it now.
My kids had some cheap plastic head, aluminum shaft golf clubs that they never played with. The 'hozzel,' or the part of the club where the club head affixes itself to the shaft was hollow. I cut part of the clubhead off so the Skimmer tranny fit perfectly (similar to TD's 1/2" PVC setup).
I mounted 1/2" thick plywood inbetween the support frames (behind the seat)of my pontoon boat. The plywood will not contact the bladders at all. I drilled 1 1/4" in holes for rod holders and mounted a 1/2 inch wide, 3 inch long strip of wood to the end of the plywood "deck." The transducer will be attached to the strip via zip-ties. The cool thing about this setup is that the transducer can pivot to an angle if I want to try to get a side reading, and then move it back into the vertical position.
I'll get some pics out, it's nothing pretty, but it is functional . . . I hope.
ES
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Many of you saw my original setup for tranducer and display around a 5 gallon bucket (see one of the "cuda" posts on the board). Taking TD's advice, I've rethought the mounting of the "tranny." Once I get it all back out of my trunk, I'll post some pics later and try to describe it now.
My kids had some cheap plastic head, aluminum shaft golf clubs that they never played with. The 'hozzel,' or the part of the club where the club head affixes itself to the shaft was hollow. I cut part of the clubhead off so the Skimmer tranny fit perfectly (similar to TD's 1/2" PVC setup).
I mounted 1/2" thick plywood inbetween the support frames (behind the seat)of my pontoon boat. The plywood will not contact the bladders at all. I drilled 1 1/4" in holes for rod holders and mounted a 1/2 inch wide, 3 inch long strip of wood to the end of the plywood "deck." The transducer will be attached to the strip via zip-ties. The cool thing about this setup is that the transducer can pivot to an angle if I want to try to get a side reading, and then move it back into the vertical position.
I'll get some pics out, it's nothing pretty, but it is functional . . . I hope.
ES
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