November 5, 2009

Layover Turner Marina, Dog River Mobile AL

Up early and took a shower. Made coffee and reviewed the chart plotters in the West Marine catalog. Decided that Garmin would be my choice. It was a very short walk across the parking lot to the West Marine Express store. Sales guy was named Wes. He know a lot about the Garmin and delivered an outstanding demonstration. After playing with the unit for about an hour, I made the purchase. Got a shoot through the hull transducer. Returned to the boat and tested per the directions. Put the transducer in water against the hull. It worked. I returned to the store and purchased epoxy to perfectly attach the transducer to the hull. It acted a little funny while the epoxy cured. Once hard, the unit worked beautifully. I spent the rest of the day familiarizing myself with all of the functions. Temporarily mounted the system to a plastic case that was used to mount the dept finder.