dhays
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- 2010 North Pacific 43
A couple days ago, my depth sounder started to quit setting a depth. At first it was intermittently when over deep water (150 fathoms or so). Then it started to crap out anything above 15 fathoms, then 10, then 5, and now it will only give me a depth if it feels like it, which is very rare.
Bad timing as I have spent a couple days exploring new places. Today I am in Oyster Bay, which is off of Ostrich Bay, which is off of Dyes Inlet. The channel into this shallow little pocket has a depth of 7 feet at MLLW which aroumd here is about 2.7ft. there is going to be a -2 tide tomorrow. I am guessing I anchored in 16 feet of water at a 8' tide. So at a -2, tide I should still have 6' of water and I only draw 4.5'. what could go wrong? Fortunately, a soft mud bottom.
Anyway, any ideas on what could have caused the sounder to quit reporting? I replaced the transducer about 4-5 years ago. At the time, I would get a DSM error when the depth wouldn't read. No such error now. I am assuming that means that the transducer is still connecting to the Raymarine ST60.
Bottom was painted within the last year.
Bad timing as I have spent a couple days exploring new places. Today I am in Oyster Bay, which is off of Ostrich Bay, which is off of Dyes Inlet. The channel into this shallow little pocket has a depth of 7 feet at MLLW which aroumd here is about 2.7ft. there is going to be a -2 tide tomorrow. I am guessing I anchored in 16 feet of water at a 8' tide. So at a -2, tide I should still have 6' of water and I only draw 4.5'. what could go wrong? Fortunately, a soft mud bottom.
Anyway, any ideas on what could have caused the sounder to quit reporting? I replaced the transducer about 4-5 years ago. At the time, I would get a DSM error when the depth wouldn't read. No such error now. I am assuming that means that the transducer is still connecting to the Raymarine ST60.
Bottom was painted within the last year.
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