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Hi,
i was just wondering if any people who have or have had a 445f can reccomend me what power is best for a bow mounted electric motor on the 445f. Will mainly be used in relatively calm waters around the Harbour however may also use the anchor features quite a bit when it's windy or strong current.
cheers
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1 hour ago, Fish_More said:
Forgot to mention, the pub at Rainbow is not too bad for a feed!
Hi,
Thanks for the reply! I'm not really looking to much at crabbing but more just flicking SP's for some flatties and whiting, so mainly looking at staying inside. Dont have huge range as I'm just using the standard red fuel tanks and with a 70 2s its not fuel efficient.
Cheers
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7 minutes ago, Franticd10 said:
hi guys,
Just wanted your advice. I am new to SP and wanted to know if i would have any chance at catching a Flathead off Balmoral beach. I was planning on walking up and down to cover the beach. Or should i stay on the wharf and wish from there?
I have seen kings swimming off the rocky point in the middle of balmoral while catching yakkas. If you have a big enough rod I'd try fishing off there.
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Hi,
I'm going up to Tin Can Bay for 2 weeks at the start of feb for the first time and I'm towing the boat up so I can get in some fishing. Just wondering if anybodys ever fish areas around tin can bay and can give me some pointers on areas to try. Hope to just be flicking some soft plastics.
Thanks,
Will
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Hi,
Me and @nickb111 are terrible at fishing the harbour, so if you are still creating new stickers could we get one for the boat so other raiders can come and give us some tips when we cant catch any fish.
Cheers
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Hi,
I was wondering if anybody had recommendations on who to use to get some work done on my fibreglass boat. Looking at trying to get a cast deck built in. Can go anywhere in the Sydney region. Please only PM me suggestions.
Thanks a lot for any help!!
Will
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Nice fish mate, did you put the squid down with a sinker or let it float down?
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57 minutes ago, Fab1 said:
Yes,that's what I would do.
Great. Will let you know how I go.
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13 hours ago, Fabian Sosa1 said:
Firstly I'd tidy that wiring up you mention as soon as you can as there's nothing worse than wires all over the place not to mention the fire hazard side of things.
Secondly all boats have grounds/earths.
ALL earths/grounds MUST run back to the negative side of the battery or to a seperated Busbar feed by the battery ONLY (alloy or glass). The engine block is already earthed/grounded to the battery and that is it, no other earths/grounds to the hull anywhere.Too many people earth tinnys through the hull and end up with problems with electrolysis and battery draining issues.
In your case ground that wire to that existing negative Busbar or directly to the battery negative terminal post.
ps make sure you fuse that sounder too.
Cheers, Fabian
Ok thanks a lot Fabian.
So I'll conect positive to switch board, negative to negative busbar and also the ground wire to the negative busbar? Also both positive/negative wires from sounder have fuses.
Cheers
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2 hours ago, Fabian Sosa1 said:
If you don't ground the Neg - cable you won't have a complete circuit and the screen won't power up.
I run all my positive + power from the positive post on the battery to a + busbar and all my Negative - power from the negative post on the battery to a - Busbar protected by the required fuses for whatever electronics I'm running to these.
I have my sounder,bildge pump,nav lights,deck lights wired like this.
hope this helps.
Hey Mate, sorry this is my first time wiring so sorry I'm a little confused.
The wiring in my boat is really all over the place making it a little difficult. I have one battery for my boat that is for cranking + all electronics. This is situated to the back of the boat, and it has a positive and negative wire running up into the console. These wires are quite a heavy gauge and the positive and negative wires are separately connected to a little device similar to a busbar but they only have one tiedown/nut down (I'll call them a tiedown/nut down busbar) spot for the wires. So all my electronics, nav lights etc have their postive wire connected to the single tiedown/nut down positive busbar and their negative wire connected to the single tiedown/nut down positive busbar, with the thick wires also connecting to these, running back to the battery. There is also a 6 switch fuse switchpanel which some devices are connected too. So my sounder has its negative and positive wires which I will just connect to the postive/negative tiedown/nut down busbar's and also another wire which I will connect to the switchpanel. But the sounder also has a specific wire coming from a separate port at the back of it that needs to be grounded. However since this is a small fibreglass boat I dont think I have a ground, thus I'm wondering how it should be done.
Sorry for the long post, but any help would be appreciated.
Cheers.
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Hi,
When installing a fish finder, is it important to ground the power cables for the sounder? Its a 628 going on a smallish boat, with closest electronics being a VHF radio.
Thanks
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On 10/24/2016 at 9:59 AM, Browny76 said:
Did you end up fixing the problem? Mines doing the same, when it starts to bog down I pump the primer and away she goes. So I'm assuming fuel problem maybe stemming from the fuel tank side. Let me know how you went!!
Mate I had this issue with my last boat that had a 40 lightning XR, its fuel. The fuel line was old and had a lot of gunk in it. Just bought a new one for $20 and it ran perfectly.
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I had a look at the s2009, but cheapeast I could find (world wide) was roughly 1250. Had a look at all the other usual a bit more closely and still think 628 is the best, especially at the price I found...
An Australian store: $930 (incl shipping) for 628 + p66 tranny...
Might pull the plug on this.
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Is the p66 for a furono ? Why buy from the US, the prices are much the same here once you take out postage and having a local warranty and shop to ask any questions has got to be better ( not to mention supporting local business).
There are heaps of good deals on sounders if you shop around, not sure if any sponsors offer electronics.
Jon
Hi Jon, Yes P66 is Furuno.
There is still around a $250 price difference between the U.S and Aus on this unit, with most Aus stores selling around 1280 mark and the from the U.S + postage, it can be had for $935. As much as I'd like to go locally the price difference can't really but justified.
Cheers.
*Edit* You know Australian prices are horrid when you can get a 628 from New Zealand for around $900. I might look at getting one from New Zealand
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Hi,
So I'm looking at getting a new sounder with a max budget of $1000. I don't need any maps so looking for a sounder + transducer combo that can produce high quality returns. I'd probably fish in maximum 200m of water and have no need for side scan. I already have a well mounted p66 so I'm thinking possibly purchasing a Furuno 628 from the U.S. If anyone has any other suggestions that would be very much appreciated.
Thanks
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The squid have been plentiful if you persevere and try several spots till you locate them. Tho finding the kings to feed them to this last 4-8weeks has be harder than finding the squid.
This!!!
I've had no trouble getting squid, but its been hard to convert!
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Here is a guide from Garmin about adjusting your transducer that may help.
"Test the transom-mount transducer installation in open water free of obstacles. Pay attention to your surroundings as you test the transducer.
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1 With the boat in the water, turn on the chartplotter.
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2 Drive the boat at a slow speed. If the chartplotter appears to be working properly, gradually increase speed while observing the chartplotter.
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3 If the sonar signal is suddenly lost or the bottom return is severely degraded, note the speed at which this occurs.
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4 Return the boat to the speed at which the signal was lost, and make moderate turns in both directions while observing the chartplotter.
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5 If the signal strength improves while turning, adjust the transducer so that it extends another 1/8 in. (3 mm) below the transom of the boat.
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6 Repeat steps 2–4 until the degradation is eliminated.
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7 If the signal does not improve, move the transducer to a
different location on the transom, and repeat the test. "
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I had a new transducer fitted last week. Seems mine was incorrectly mounted when the boat was manufactured and it has filled with water. What is interesting is that 2 different marine electricians told me to replace the pair of E120's as they were faulty. That's was a $20,000 job. In the end the job cost $2,900 including pulling the boat out. Just shows you how you can get stung on the water.
Extremely true. This will be the first transducer I'm mounting myself so I want to make sure i dont end up with leaking water issues.
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I would fill the old transducer holes with epoxy and attach the pvc board to the transom with sikaflex and then screw the transducer to that which will eliminate any chance of water getting in causing your transom to rot.
Another good idea, do you think the sikaflex would be strong enough to hold onto the tranducer with the drag it will cause from a little bit of it being in the water?
Cheers
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The best solution would be to re-drill the new bracket to suit the existing hole centres you already have then sikaflex.
Thanks, that sounds like quite a good idea, only thing is the bracket currently installed is pretty wide so I hope the Garmin bracket can reach across that far.
Cheers
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Hey Guys,
I'm looking to upgrade my furuno ls4100 to a Garmin echomap chirp in either 5" or 7" but need a bit of help on changing over the transducer. I have a P66 currently mounted for the furuno so will need to take that off, leaving the screw holes. So I'm looking at which option would be better to replace it (this is on a fibreglass boat).
1) Fill all the screw wholes with 5200 FGJ620 and then mount new transducer as usual
2) Screwing in a thick piece of marine plastic (i.e king starboard) into the old screw holes and then screwing new transducer just into the board
Any other ideas would be fantastic.
Cheers,
Will
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Nice mate, know exactly where you went
. I went on Wednesday arvo and lost 2 live squid to pickers there. Tried put them down just below the surface and they still got destroyed which was disappointing. Good to see the kings back there though!! -
Hey Guys,
I'm looking at upgrading my current monochrome sounder to a Garmin Striker as I dont have a huge budget and have navonics on my phone. I'm particularly looking at the 5dv, but was wondering how good the chirp clarity is? Does it pick up fish well, and have good target seperation at <100m? Is there a large difference in clarity from the echomap transducers over the striker transducers?
Thanks a lot!
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Cheers again guys,
I hooked up a fresh tank of 98 octance I bought this afternoon and tired to kick the motor over, but unfortunately nothing. I drained the fuel line before starting as well. I messaged the mechanic and told him about the situation and mentioned the e10, which he now believes is the cause and he wants to check it out. I'll take it to him on Monday on the way to school. If he can diagnosis the problem as either my fault or his, he can order the exact genuine parts for me and I can have a go a trying to fix it up.
Cheers for the offer ZMK I'll let you know how it goes and see if I run into any troubles. Will try to get this fixed asap as having e10 sitting in the engine does not sound good.
Thanks again for all the help guys, really appreciate it.
Will
. I went on Wednesday arvo and lost 2 live squid to pickers there. Tried put them down just below the surface and they still got destroyed which was disappointing. Good to see the kings back there though!!
Balmain Sunday morning 2 hr session.
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Posted · Edited by will_l
To be honest mate, probably fine once or twice but would not recommend it at all, thats why the fishing is good west of the bridge because a majority of people C and R. There are a lot of dioxins in the water west of the bridge.
You should read this: http://www.foodauthority.nsw.gov.au/foodsafetyandyou/special-care-foods/sydney-harbour-seafood