Installing a New Airmar Transducer on Our Sailboat (Part 1 Thru-hull modification) Ep. 29

In this episode we remove our old (broken) speed log paddle wheel modify the thru-hull to allow us to fit our new Airmar DST810 transducer. Thanks for watching.
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[@AlexGoesSailing]

I need to get myself an Alan! 😂 great work guys!

[@LittleBoatAdventures]

Thanks Alex. Yes everyone needs an Alan., always turns up at the right time and willing to help 🙏😁

[@sailingprojectparrot]

Glad we just found your channel….nearly at stage of fitting new transducer too 🙌 good to learn how others did it, thanks for filming it 🙌🥳⛵️⚓️🦜

[@LittleBoatAdventures]

No problem. Thanks for the comment. If there's anything we can help with or if you've any questions, we'd be happy to help

[@bobblack4048]

Lovely video. Great ingenuity. Looking good Mark..

[@LittleBoatAdventures]

Thanks Bob. We weren't sure how we would go about it, but this seemed to be simple and effective 👍

[@sandy2483]

Keep up the good vids pal, always a pleasure to watch. Both off you two have something special...👍

[@LittleBoatAdventures]

Thanks Sandy, we really appreciate it 👍

[@kennywatson708]

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 great work keep it up you guys!

[@fairweathersailors]

Nicely done.... You're make drilling a hole in a boat look easy... The wedge came out great, for a tester...

[@LittleBoatAdventures]

Yeah it was very much a suck it and see job lol. But as you will see in the next video it worked out well 🤞😁

[@ThomasMaxe]

I'm not too keen on holes in the hull, so I had an in-hull (inboard) transducer installed for my new Nasa Clipper depth sounder. It seems to get pretty good readings through the hull without the need to drill any holes. At least I haven't run aground yet, all though I had a rather close call this summer. Apparently you have to actually look at your instruments from time to time if you want to benefit from them. Tsk-tsk... I suppose I should read the manual and figure out how to set up the depth alarm. But, I mean... "read the manual"? Well, maybe next summer... :-)

[@LittleBoatAdventures]

Hi Thomas. I agree, the less he's the better. I needed the through hul for the speed sensor otherwise I would have went for an interior sensor. Haha, men don't read instruction manuals 🤣. I am the same, I still haven't read mine yet. Maybe this winter when the boat is back out of the water.

[@sailingprojectparrot]

Wondering if we could fit an in-hull transducer on our steel boat? I would certainly sleep better knowing there’s one less hole in the boat 😂🙈

[@sailingaphrodite4189]

So that is how I should have done it! When I replaced the old speed log with the Airmar transducer just made the hole bigger! I've had no problems with depth readings, apart when I was healing at 45° and I hope never, ever to do that again! It's great to know what the STW is and it is always way too cold to go swimming!

[@LittleBoatAdventures]

Well, I wouldn't say its how it should be done, just a video of how we did it. We seen another channel do something similar but using countless layers of fibreglass. Good that you got your transducer angle OK for the depth. Our dead rise was too big so it would have been too inaccurate to trust the depth.

[@AdrianKerr]

Great work Mate!

[@LittleBoatAdventures]

Cheers Adrian

[@Sailing.Artemis]

Got ya thanks for the link

[@svcarillian4689]

Hi Guys, Just starting into a refit myself. Maybe we'll on the water sometime next year. Rory

[@LittleBoatAdventures]

Lovely boat you have Rory. God luck with the refit and yes, hopefully we meet when we are both back in the water. 🙏😂

[@berndkonemann5049]

I had the same ide, the same aproach and the same material, (Western system) with exception that mine is a teel hull. I call it a fairing over a wedge but heck, all the same. Wondered if you found that the waterstream turbulance was causing the wheel to keep smooth motion or did you find at times irratic speed readings ?

[@LittleBoatAdventures]

Hi Bernd. We tried our best to make a nice slope for the water to go over and not cause irratic reading on the paddle wheel. It works very well. Will you do the same?

[@berndkonemann5049]

@@LittleBoatAdventures I noticed that in the second video, after I left my comment on the first one... and yes, I did the same. I called it "fethering" and indeed created a gradfual slope of nearly 25 inches. I used a body fill compound as base and than changed over to epoxy with fiberglass filling. Is in since 3 years and seams to work fine and hold up well. We have to be creative with sailboats. Helps to think outside the box. I had to improvise a few things in preperation for the north west passage. After all, I had to sleep at times... Happy sailing you two.

[@jkutyna]

I cannot get past videos where people from Britain use the term 'skin fitting'. It just sends chills up your spine each and every time. Why that one country chooses to come up with it's own arbitrary term in sailing is beyond me, but it is creepy as all heck.

[@LittleBoatAdventures]

Alternative??