Installing a Through Hull Transducer with a Custom Fairing. Part 1

s05e52 I have been thinking about the possibility of an in-hull or thru-hull transducer for a long time. I had an in-hull transducer in a previous boat and found it to be very good, for what it was. Researching it today I found that it was okay for 2D traditional sonar around the bay but it wasn’t really a suitable option for modern CHIRP transducers and just plain doesn’t work for side vision, etc. I started down the path of an in-hull transducer but fortunately didn’t get too far before becoming convinced that it wasn’t a good idea. About a year later I was finally convinced that there was a way to make a thru-hull transducer work on my boat. The problem was the concave section of the keel. Traditional wisdom was that there could air bubbles going down the tunnel and preventing the transducer from working as intended. America has a lot more boats than Australia and while browsing the net I saw a transducer fairing on a boat that had a flat section of keel where mine was concave. A bit more research and I decided that a faring block should work. The transducer I picked came with a fairing block but that would not fit my hull because of the internal layout, so I made my own. That is the subject of this video, making a custom fairing block to fit my hull. ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ Follow weFish-AU on: ► FishTrax: https://fishtrax.we-fish.com.au ► Facebook: https://fb.me/wefishAU ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬