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General Aquasport Forums => Electronics => Topic started by: doyle007 on July 27, 2017, 02:19:12 AM
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I am thinking of mounting my new Lowrance Hook 7 transducer in my bilge so that it shoots thru hull, so I want to make sure that I am not a cored hull. My boat is a 1989 Osprey 175. Am I good to go?
Thanks guys.
Joe
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I have not seen a cored Hialeah hull.
I'd say no. It's solid fiberglass.
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Thank you Bob. I appreciate the answer, although after reading some additional information I think that I will just stick it on the transom in order to maximize the performance of the transducer.
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Probably a good idea. Seal it up well.
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I believe that most '80's vintage hulls had a piece of plywood in the hull under the rear deck plate, where the bilge pump is normally mounted.
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Every one I've seen has that mount fixed to the hull surface, not cored within the hull itself.
Not sure if that is what you meant. :ScrChin:
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Every one I've seen has that mount fixed to the hull surface, not cored within the hull itself.
Not sure if that is what you meant. :ScrChin:
It’s been about 30 years since I worked as a boat rigger at an Aquasport dealer, so my memory of “the fleet at large” is starting to get a bit fuzzy and the features on the Aquasports may be blending in with some of the features on the Makos, Grady’s, Sea Rays & other boats that I also worked on back then. I remember that some boats had a raised patch in the bilge that was basically a square of plywood that had one or two layers of glass over it. That patch was usually there so that you had an area that would take a screw, for mounting things like a bilge pump & float switch. That is probably consistent with what you are describing. I don’t specifically remember for sure if that was how all the Aquasports were or not.
The 86 Aquasport that I have now, has flat glass in the bilge, with wood under the area below the pie hatch in front of the motor. I don’t have a hump in there. The glass on top of the wood is less than 1/4" thick. The wood is not in the center of the glass sandwich. I haven’t noticed any signs that the glass in my current boat was repaired or modified in that area.
I do remember that a little variation from boat to boat was not an uncommon thing when those boats were new. Not all details were always the same, even within a single batch of boats that all arrived on the same day in the same truck load. Perhaps some boats had more of a hump than others??? Perhaps that area of the boat was hand-laid & varied a bit in detail, depending on which Hialeah craftsman was working that particular day???
Please let me know if what you are talking about is different from what I just described.
Thanks,
Jim
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I am thinking of mounting my new Lowrance Hook 7 transducer in my bilge so that it shoots thru hull, so I want to make sure that I am not a cored hull. My boat is a 1989 Osprey 175. Am I good to go?
Thanks guys.
Joe
I have the same exact boat. Hull is not cored, but yes there is a wood area for bilge pump right along the keel in stern.
I stuck some starboard to my transom with 4200 and I use that as a transducer mounting plate so I can adjust the location and not worry about the amount of holes I'm drilling. I change it somewhat often, still haven't found the right spot for a Side Imaging ducer on the 175 where it gets a reading on both sides or gets a good reading at high speed, or doesn't create a rooster tail. :acclaim01:
Food for thought.