Stuart, FL To Racine, WI On A 60MY

[SKYCHENEY]

And the river bow mustache is always nice to clean up. Good luck on the trip.

[Freeebird]

Yep, she'll have a good one when we get her home.

Just checked the lake level for today, and it stands at 5.40'. I'll let Dave make that call, but the factory specs show 4'11". No doubt the old gal will be loaded with fuel and water along with the typical liveaboard load plus 30 days of supplies for this trip. Might be doing a little keel polishing on the west end if we tried at that level.

[oscarvan]

And the river bow mustache is always nice to clean up. Good luck on the trip.

If it's anything like the "Chesapeake Smile"...... this stuff worked like magic for me.

[Sadey]

My transduce is located under the VIP head. I'm not sure if someone corrected it for location and unfortunately I have found bottom when the depth on the Garmins read 5'ish. I hate not knowing the precise measurement but we haven't had enough time in type as they say to know to have confidence in accuracy. If we chance that route it'll be at almost idle. What says the Sam's gallery?

[doc g]

Lake level?? As is Lake Okeechobee? I would never run thru there. If you do any "keel polishing" it's with solid limestone. Run down thru the Keys, cut thru at Channel 5 or Marathon depending on tide. Fuel is cheap compared to haul outs and prop/shaft work and fuel is even cheaper now......Pat

[Passages]

My transduce is located under the VIP head. I'm not sure if someone corrected it for location and unfortunately I have found bottom when the depth on the Garmins read 5'ish. I hate not knowing the precise measurement but we haven't had enough time in type as they say to know to have confidence in accuracy. If we chance that route it'll be at almost idle. What says the Sam's gallery?

You should be able to program an offset to your DF display. Easy enough fix. Just take a tape measure near as you can get to the transducer, measure depth, then adjust display to match.

[Freeebird]

If it's anything like the "Chesapeake Smile"...... this stuff worked like magic for me.

It's more like the "Mississippi Mud" with a side of "Tenn-Tom Taint" and "Illinois…", I can't come up with a good word for Illinois.

[Freeebird]

My transduce is located under the VIP head. I'm not sure if someone corrected it for location and unfortunately I have found bottom when the depth on the Garmins read 5'ish. I hate not knowing the precise measurement but we haven't had enough time in type as they say to know to have confidence in accuracy. If we chance that route it'll be at almost idle. What says the Sam's gallery?

Your Captain says, nobody on here can tell you what to do with any degree of accuracy. I will say the only place I've ever bumped has been on the west end as you're entering the markers that take you into the rim at Roland Martin. It was just mud.

[Freeebird]

You should be able to program an offset to your DF display. Easy enough fix. Just take a tape measure near as you can get to the transducer, measure depth, then adjust display to match.

And how do you propose he verify the exact depth provided by the USACE and where?


Yes, I'm being sarcastic... sort of. Bottom line is, when it's that close, it's still a guess.

[Freeebird]

Lake level?? As is Lake Okeechobee? I would never run thru there. If you do any "keel polishing" it's with solid limestone. Run down thru the Keys, cut thru at Channel 5 or Marathon depending on tide. Fuel is cheap compared to haul outs and prop/shaft work and fuel is even cheaper now......Pat

Did a little keel bump with a 70CY several years ago, but it was a deadhead in the rim that took out a prop in 12' of water. It was one of those, "ship happens", kind of deals, but I'll admit I was glad I wasn't at the wheel when it happened.