SO WHAT DID YOU DO WITH OR ON YOUR C-DORY TODAY??

Roger – if you are getting the $%#S# static on your handheld vhf, you should be able to use it to chase down the noise.
Try turning everything off on your boat except the fish finder and your handheld. Move around in and off the boat with the handheld and see if the noise gets louder at any point. Check out the spot where it is the loudest. If something else has to be on also, then it may not be the fish finder or it could be a combination of two or more items. Let us know what it is when you solve the $%#S# static.
 
Thanks for the suggestions. It will be a little while before I get back to messing at this but in brief
1) It only requires the finder to be on and a radio nearby to hear it.
2) Since I pick it up on my hand held (which is not connected to the boat's electrical system), I believe that's good evidence that it's radiated.
3) I did move the antenna cable away from the sounder and that didn't solve the problem.
4) The sound is like Joe describes. It's clearly coming from the pulse to the transducer - It change frequency as the depth range changed (for shorter depths the bleeps are closer together than at deeper range settings).

Since moving the antenna cable didn't solve the problem, the idea that the antenna was the transmitter for a radiative pickup is out the window. So now I need to work on hunting down other possibilities. My first thought is to try to temporarily power the sounder from a separate 12V battery on the theory that the sounder current draw through long power leads is the source of the radiations. If that doesn't solve things, I might try moving the transducer lead. For now I've other problems to fix. The truck wouldn't start this weekend after filling with gas on my way to Neah Bay - the lights were left on for about 10 mins - I think I need a new battery. Also, the sleeve on the idle cable on the port side engine parted near the connection to the engine so I have to figure out how to fix that.

ON THE BRIGHT SIDE - fishing at Neah Bay was GREAT! We limited on salmon yesterday and caught 3 on the half day we fished on Fri. Also caught some cod. First day, I fished with me and a friend and on Sat his son was with. Yesterday was three large kings - 2 in the teens and one about 25#, plus 3 silvers over 6#, a nice 8# cabezon, several china cod a few kelp greenling. My friend and his son just returned from a trip to Alaska and have a full freezer so I was luck benificiary of most of their fish. I'll post a pic of the large king in my photo album shortly.
 
We planned to go to Newport at o-dark-thirty Saturday morning...but not -- in the wee hours Saturday morning, Steve took me to the hospital and we found out I'll be having gall bladder surgery in the not too distant future.....were at the horspital until about 7:30AM, so came home, slept for a few hours and headed over to the boat -- hoping to install downriggers. In the afternoon, as Steve was wrestling one downrigger installation, he said he was really hungry but didn't want a sandwich...I opened the cabinet and spotted some ravioli in a can and asked him if he wanted that -- eyes lit up and I took that as a yes. I heated it up, put some in a bowl for him and he came in and sat down for a bite...leaned on the table and kablooooey! table folded down into his lap, along with ravioli and root beer and everything else on that side of the table (nice red sauce everywhere!). I think his first rant was "We're sellin this $@#!!? boat!" "What kind of engineering is that where the catch can fall straight down and work its way out of the slot???" Anyone have a more secure way of fastening that table in the upright position when the seat's not forward facing? All in all, it was kinda a bust weekend (thank heaven we still have 2 days to make up for it :xlol ) as 2 parts were missing from one of the downriggers and we need some special screws to attach the flip up part to the mount.

He also got out of taking me out for a "really nice dinner" since he forgot our anniversary last week (I'm on non-fat, pretty much liquid diet since the trip to the hospital -- definitely no more butter popcorn for me!) .... but he's not off the hook totally -- after the surgery, I'll be collectin on THAT raincheck :)
 
Caty, it's fixable, don't sell the boat. You were lucky. If you look at earliler posts, a friend of mine (a Navy Admiral) broke his ankle while underway in very rough seas because of a table collapse.

There are lots of ways to fix it. I used a simple pin with a ring in one end and a ball (under tension) in the long end through a drilled hole in the bracket.

Don't dispair. Ravioli stains do come out. Broken bones are a lot harder to fix.

Charlie
 
Captains Choice":rphhlkzn said:
Caty, it's fixable, . . .There are lots of ways to fix it. I used a simple pin with a ring in one end and a ball (under tension) in the long end through a drilled hole in the bracket.
Charlie
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I'm not getting a visual...got a picture? :)

Yup, it cleaned up ok...good thing the rug is browns and rusts...the ravioli kinda blended in...but I had to hose it off anyway because of the sticky soda...it's sitting on the trailer drying out :wink:

These weren't all our weekend hilites..the top of the porta potty wasn't seated on the bottom right...cleanup required...then I took the rug in overnight so it wouldn't gather coastal moisture overnight...it was wet enough to run a bead of water down the cabin and Steve saw the stream of water and thought the NEW boat was leaking...or the porta potty was broken and wasn't getting a seal....it was an action packed day and night on the boat!

It's all good :beer :thup
 
CatyMae - Some days are worse than others. We seem to always look back on them with fond memories.

PS – good luck with you upcoming surgery. I pray everything comes out OK.
 
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-- a pull pin (locks the table lip) -- get them almost anywhere.

Today I mixed up a batch of wax and copper and waxed the boat bottom. I'll dump her in tomorrow.

Best of luck with the surgery!
 
Caty - I also hope everything "comes out" OK. Save the parts - use 'em for crab bait... :wink:
 
Spent Saturday and Sunday morning in Hunter Bay. We got our limit of crab each day. Coming back Sunday morning thick fog all the way into Guemes Channel.
 
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Caty - I also hope everything "comes out" OK. Save the parts - use 'em for crab bait... :wink:
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THAT cracked me up! ... a crab caught with gall stones...yoweeee! Isn't there a crab called a stone crab? prob'ly not the same, eh? :lol: :D
 
Keep the porta potti, consider sending Steve and the Jelli Bellies to the minors....

:shock:

Charlie
 
Installed a tube for storing the washdown hose under the gunnel. Factory had the hose stored in the gunnel. Now, with the hose relocated, I have room to mount the pump for the auto pilot.

Caty- Hope all goes well with you.
 
Caty, just a note about the gall bladder... I had mine out years ago and didn't realize how lousy I felt before that. You will be much better off. Hopefully, your surgery will be with the "scope" thingy... my dear old Mother had that done when she was in her late 70s and was home the next day (and got to eat bacon again after years without! :wink: ). Hope it all goes easy and you two are back out on the boat (with the table fixed) right away.

Best wishes,
Jim B.
 
Just got back from 4 1/2 days at Catalina, spent nights at several anchorages. There were four of us, ate all meals on board. Had no idea how much food two 17 yr olds and one 13 yr old can eat! I've cooked and cleaned -- mostly cleaned -- for past few days, but did manage to have a lot of fun in between. This is the very worst weekend of the year to go to Catalina by the way. Best advice I can give on going to Catalina on a holiday weekend, always have a backup place to anchor, then a backup to the backup.

Met Andy and Debbie on Koinania (sp?) while at the Isthmus, fishing and having a great time as usual. Also met Hunky Dory, hopefully new addition to the site.
 
After rubbing out and waxing my boat the past few days, I retrimed the boat's natural blue trim in red for the bootstripe, the blue trim strip below the gunnel, and an additional stripe around the cabin. If you haven't seen this done, you might like to consider this, as it livens up the boat. Explanations on page three of my album. Joe.

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Joe – you have a good-looking boat. The red adds a nice contrast to your boat. I notice the color on the bottom of the boat is a different shade of blue than the brow and side trim. Is this something you did?
 
I just spent the last three days outfitting the boat with all the trinkets. Furno radar, Garmin gps chart plotter depth finder combination two radios, compass and a second battery with switch that I forgot to order with the boat(dumb me). I'm glad all this stuff comes with good directions and good help line phone numbers.
I'm probably not as smart as most of you as it took me twenty hours and several trips to BW....................Now look out fish!
 
On the contrary Larry Q, I'd say you're pretty fast, heck it took me 20 hours to cut a hole and put in a hatch (water tank access)! 20 hrs is my avg for ANY project let alone multiple like you've done.
 
Larry Q - anytime you need help cutting holes in your boat or just want a dumb second opinion, give me a call and I would be happy to hop over to the other side of the hill and give you a hand.
 
Dave-

Thanks for the compliments!

The lower color is anti-fouling bottom paint. It's darker when you first paint it and when it's in the water, but when dried out on the trailer it has a chalky, lighter appearance.

There are many different kinds of bottom paint intended for different applications. Could be an entire se of courses in itself:

Bottom Paints 101

Bolttom Painting Procedures and Methods 102

Chemistry of Antifouling Paints 201

Measuring the Effects of Antifouling Paints on the Ecosystem 301

Etc., etc.

Joe.
 
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