mvweebles
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- Joined
- Mar 21, 2019
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- Location
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- Vessel Name
- Weebles
- Vessel Make
- 1970 Willard 36 Trawler
I realize this has come up before, but not for a while.
I have my depth sounder offset set to feet beneath the keel. Seems intuitive for my wife.
I recently entered a channel as lead where the other two boats had significantly deeper draft. So I was giving them depths but had to constantly add 4-feet to give an accurate actual depth. Seemed to be unnecessary calculus at an important time.
Thoughts? Argument for running actual depth vs offset for keel depth? I'm thinking of going back to actual depth and telling my wife to do the simple math and get over it.
What are y'all doing and why?
Peter
I have my depth sounder offset set to feet beneath the keel. Seems intuitive for my wife.
I recently entered a channel as lead where the other two boats had significantly deeper draft. So I was giving them depths but had to constantly add 4-feet to give an accurate actual depth. Seemed to be unnecessary calculus at an important time.
Thoughts? Argument for running actual depth vs offset for keel depth? I'm thinking of going back to actual depth and telling my wife to do the simple math and get over it.
What are y'all doing and why?
Peter