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| Pearl on her morning check. |
The sounder - actually a fish-finder - came with the electronics package. The transducer is mounted, via a fairing, on a near-horizontal part of the port inner hull. You can have it set up the way you want but I like it to read 0 when the bottom of the keel is just touching bottom. This makes anchoring calculations very easy and, therefore, less error-prone.
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| Both cats are a lot more comfortable on this boat than Red. |
The first thing to know is the draft - the vertical distance between the surface and the deepest part of the hull. I measured this on the rudders and got 1m, which was a surprise because this boat is supposed to be 850mm! I assume we are riding a bit low.
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| Pipe cleaners still a favorite toy. |
Then I plumbed the current depth. Depth - draft should equal the sounder reading so it was just a matter of adjusting the sounder offset until it did. In the end I adjusted it to read about 1/2m deeper than the way it was set up which should give us more anchoring options.
Discovered a blown globe (bulb / lamp) in the port engine panel. The problem with this particular globe is that it's part of the circuit that sends the battery sense voltage to the alternator. I swapped it with a working globe but I'll need to get some spares.
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| Engine panel globe. |
Location
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| Horseshoe Bay, Magnetic Island |
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