I moved your thread so hopefully you will get more responses.
I am trying to mount my Lowrance fish finder transducer for my Old Town Guide 147 canoe. I have the finder unit attached to a strong spring clip which is easily attached or removed from the thwart, with the power cord running to the 12 volt battery, however I am reluctant to cable or zip tie the transducer to the bottom of the trolling motor which is mounted to another thwart like mount on the port side. I have read about using duct seal in the bottom of the boat to form a cup which when filled with a hand full of water would hold the transducer fast and permit the signals to operate correctly thru the polyethylene hull. I understand that the Guide is 3 layers of polyethylene. Has anyone attempted this? Would all the phases (down scan, chirp, sonar, etc still work) or are there air gaps between the layers that would prevent proper operation? If this worked it would be easier for me to attach and unattach everything for carrying the canoe on the roof rack, and possible reception problems created by the trolling motor, since it is an older unit.
I moved your thread so hopefully you will get more responses.
Fair Winds and Following Seas
Bill H. PTC USN Ret
Chesapeake, Va
I used a simple fold over bracket that attaches with T track on my old kayak. I am currently working on a new mount for a couple of newer to me kayaks and it will attach about the same as I like it easy to remove and mount on another kayak. You might post on a kayak fishing forum. Some of the Old Town kayaks are also made of the 3 layer hull. I know some people that fish out of Old Town sit in kayaks made out of the triple hull material, but they use the flip over bracket that ataches to the kayak. Sorry I was not really any help.
flintcreek
Thank you for your reply. I attempted to mount on the bottom of the trolling motor, but it sat down lower that the skeg and I was not happy with that for fear of rocks and stumps. Your post sparked something in my mind that other posts I had read did not. I used some material I had in the garage and did almost exactly what you said. It is clipped to the gunwale on the starboard side at the bow, higher than the bottom of the bow by a couple inches, and removable with a spring clip from inside. I haven't tried it yet but I am sure I will be happy with it. Thank you so much for your inspiration. Jim
Glad to be of help. A friend of mine uses a super magnet fastened to his kayak that holds his transducer arm in place to the side of his kayak when he flips it down and then when he starts paddling he can just flip it up with his paddle if he does not want the extra drag when paddling. Post a picture I am interested in how you you have it fastened on.
I cannot locate the directions on crappie.com on downloading photos from my Iphone to this app or using my laptop. I remember about a year they had the instructions posted in plain sight in a forum but for some reason I cannot locate them. If you can direct me to them I will attempt it, or I can text message or email photos to you, however that would require you providing a phone number or email address, which you may not want to do. (I am just a little 69 year old minnow after all...lol) I have seen the super magnet on the internet but thought it was more than what I wanted to spend if I could figure out an alternative.
Fair Winds and Following Seas
Bill H. PTC USN Ret
Chesapeake, Va
What model of Lowrance are you using in your canoe and how do you like it? Thanks Todd
This is a test. This my transducer mounted on the bow of the canoe. You can see that the canoe sits lower in the water than the transducer and will hopefully keep it from dragging on the bottom when beaching and hopefully avoiding stumps or rocks, although it will not avoid grass or weeds. Thanks Barnacle Bill for the post. If this works I will post others.
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