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Pulling a 226 with a F150 Ecoboost 3.5 crew cab with payload package. Tow rated #12,800. Doesn't know the boat is back there. 21 mpg on highway, 16.2 mpg towing the Grady

Re: depth finder intermittent malfunction What you describe is typically a transducer on the way out. What your are experiencing, freezing, erratic depth detections, etc. is a problem with the transducer ior the connection between the head and the transducer. If the connector on the back of...

FWIW: That accident occured over a year ago. 12/30 2009

The answer to your question depends on the head unit you’re using and what you’re expecting from the unit. Low end, high end unit? Do you want a simple bottom readings or are you looking for max. sensitivity? A thru hull transducer is going to give you the best sensitivity and bottom...

1997 226 - 200 HP Evinrude Ocean Pro - 17 x 14 - 4 blade prop. - WOT 5500 RPM @ 39-40 MPH

#1 maybe your best buy, but not my choice. #2 your essentically buying a new motor with a hull. The value lies in the motor, not the hull. I would go #3. Better hull, better boat all around. I could care less about the age of a mechanical apperatus. Motors are no bilogical and are no faced...

Easy enough to install jack nuts or thin nut is a plastic tank. Either can be installed with common hand tools. Plastic doesn't spark and the risk of explosion from the arcing off the brushes inside an electrical device when used in an open air environment is greatly over hyped. Gasoline...

226 w/ Hardtop - Avid Striper fisherman. I put the full enclosure on in October and it comes off in mid-May. It stays up out of necessity. Ever try to snap a fulle nclosure into place when it was 20 degrees out? Many, many miles of towing in between. Easily a couple of thousand highway miles...

That sensor is almost to simple to fail. Pull the sensor out and test per procedure in the manual. The circuit should be normally open in its normal condition. Suck on the end (create a vacuum) and the circuit should close. As Bob stated, the sensor is probably working and it just doing its...

I have a "generic" Airmar transducer on my Furuno. It comes with a cable @ 8’ length with a connector on the end. You then buy the cable that matches your head unit. Pretty neat. Since you don’t have that option you could always just splice the two cables together. If you want to get fancy...

Interesting. We were just commenting the other day how well mine tracks. When properly trimmed, you can walk away from the helm at a 27 kt. cruise and that is with cable steering. No noticeable issues off plane either. With both fuel tanks full, and 3 guys onboard, the boat is hard to...

Airmar makes the transducers for Raymarine, Furuno, Garmin and Lowrance. Airmar also makes adaptor cables so you can change head units w/o changing the transducers.

Planer boards are deadly. Probably account for 90% of the fish in the Spring and probably 70% in the winter. Most fish we catch are in the top 10- 20' of the water column. The boards allow you to fish high in the water column and away from the boat. It not unusal to have a fish break the...

I cheated. I welded up a "crows foot" wrench out of flat stock and a pipe.

The way I look at it I already have 2 holes below the water line (washdown and live well intakes) what's one more? I have a B160 and it's works great. I use a paddle wheel on the transom for speed.