will i go aground?

[Dulcesuenos]

Yes you will hit bottom at some point lol,
As for your Garmin, the 740s is pretty powerful, we had depth readings and clear view of the bottom in 2470 ' of water. Ours sometimes does what you are explaining. If you turn it off and on it clears itself. I think the issue stems from the transducer wire being close to lots of other wires.
Also try slowing down your rate of display or ping. Since sailboats go so much slower than powerboats it might help.

[Airshac]

Originally Posted by Nikolina

Been there done that! In my old marina 20' from my slip in front of a small cafe, no onlookers! HA! Anyhow been checking all the connections, nothing funny there. Heading around Vancouver Island the ground is harder than my head. Thought I might get lucky and someone would say that I need to refill the box of squelch, relplace the fluxcapacitor and swing a dead cat over my head three times while reading page 87 from Huckfinn. Guess Im not that lucky!

I'd suggest a bucket of prop wash.

[IdoraKeeper]

Originally Posted by skipmac

Sorry. No magic bullets for depth sounders but the cat trick will take care of warts. If you swing it 300 times it will even cure melanoma.

What happens if you swing a live boat Kat around your head?

[Matt sachs]

Originally Posted by IdoraKeeper

What happens if you swing a live boat Kat around your head?

"A man that picks up a cat by the tail will learn something he can learn no other way" Mark Twain

[rw58ph]

Why would you go aground if you are usng the GPS/electronic charts and the Radar. Being the Eagle draft is 6 ft, I make sure there is plenty of water under us based on our position. Very seldom do I even look at the depth sounder. the Eagle has two depth, just in cas one fails.

Also I tend to follow sail boats that have as deep a keel as the Eagle so if they can make it so should the Eagle. I have soft grounded the Eagle twice both intentional. At extreem low tides the Eagle goes grounded at our slip.

[Jim Cate]

Originally Posted by rw58ph

[SIZE=3]Why would you go aground if you are usng the GPS/electronic charts and the Radar. Being the Eagle draft is 6 ft, I make sure there is plenty of water under us based on our position. Very seldom do I even look at the depth sounder. the Eagle has two depth, just in cas one fails.

I assume that you are joking in the above.

Just in case you were serious, trusting charts, electronic or otherwise, to keep you from ever running aground will fail in so many parts of the world... charts are simply not that detailed or accurate in most of the waters of the world. Observation of the actual situation in real time is necessary, and a depth sounder is one of the crucial elements of such observations. A forward looking sonar is even better!

If your sailing (or motoring) life is in deep, well marked channels between marinas, perhaps your philosophy will suffice. If you are a cruiser, more challenging scenarios present themselves daily and other methodologies are necessary.

Cheers,

Jim

[rw58ph]

Originally Posted by Jim Cate

I assume that you are joking in the above.

Just in case you were serious, trusting charts, electronic or otherwise, to keep you from ever running aground will fail in so many parts of the world... charts are simply not that detailed or accurate in most of the waters of the world. Observation of the actual situation in real time is necessary, and a depth sounder is one of the crucial elements of such observations. A forward looking sonar is even better!

If your sailing (or motoring) life is in deep, well marked channels between marinas, perhaps your philosophy will suffice. If you are a cruiser, more challenging scenarios present themselves daily and other methodologies are necessary.

Cheers,

Jim

We boat in the PNW where the water is deep. With a 14+ ft tide swing, I also watch/time the tides. Nobeltec charts has a great tide/current similator.


I make sure I stay well in side the channels and do not cut buoys/corners. If not sure I wait and watch other boats, preferable sail boats.

[zeehag]

Originally Posted by IdoraKeeper

What happens if you swing a live boat Kat around your head?

that i dont know-- bubba is kind of heavy being a maine coon mix.... and he trusts his momms, but......

[jackdale]

I was once advised to follow a vessel with a deeper draft than yours.