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apologies for going off topic - but may I ask why you decided on a transom mount and not a through-hull?

Radio can be relocated to the overhead box, or the dash footprint eliminated entirely if you go for a VHF315 which only has a handset. Good call on the heading sensor - that's something that always bugged me in the past but I was never willing to drop $800 on one - good to see Garmin now has a...

You're going to have to explain that one ;-) - weather?

The 1243 Garmins are a sweet price point, but they are slow compared to the 8x units - I would have loved to put in a pair (or just one) of the 12's but working them side by side it was like comparing a palm treo to an iPhone. There's nothing wrong with them though - they are great workhorses...

You just missed a 12% sale at west marine. I would put in a garmin 8616xsv, an 18” hd radar and a 215vhf. With transducer you’re looking at about $10k

You are so right - especially if you're working on something while over water. Too many times I've had to grab my scuba gear because I dropped something vital off the boat while working on it on the lift. Last time it was the prop nut on a volvo duo - out of stock everwhere local at the time.

I had the same Lewmar on a previous boat - it ate the line all the time. I would throw the parts in a bath of white vinegar for an hour or so, wash it with fresh water and then grease it well as you reinstall. don't forget to spritz it with anticorrosion spray when you do the rest of the...

Thankyou! Aftermarket it is then!

They seem to be welded into the T-Top mounting tubes. Not sure why they would make two different frameworks, one for and one without but it's not inconceivable... Hopefully someone with a fisherman without outriggers will tell us whether the plates are there with bungs in the holes.

Your deck is made in a mold, it’s not assembled from discrete pieces. You need to cut out the part that’s soft, peel the glass off the rotten wood, fabricate new structure then epoxy the saved glass back over it. Messy, time consuming, but not difficult.

If you use 5200, you'll won't get them off the deck without a chainsaw, if you use 4200, you won't be able to remove them without a chisel. Just use bathroom or marine caulk - you need a sealant, not an adhesive.

Perhaps a dumb question - but does anyone know if the hardtop mounts for a fisherman 257 include mounting plates for outriggers, or are the mounting plates only there if you specify outriggers from the factory? I was not planning to order outriggers, but if the plates have to be added later I...