Jack Erbes wrote:

Is the tilt front to back (fore and aft) with the front higher? If so
you may have the perfectly designed mount.

A typical mounting wants the radar higher in the front so that lower
edge of the the cone shaped radiation pattern is placed a little more
out in front of the boat. Check the Raymarine manual for more specifics
on this and don't forget, you want to mount a little nose high for the
typical or average underway waterline level, not the level that you get
dead in the water.


I think you have that backwards - if anything you want the radar to tilt
slightly down. By tipping up, most of your forward signal is radiated
upwards where is serves little purpose. Since you already have a fairly
large upward radiation (half of you signal if level), tipping upwards
just reduces your close in signal.

The Raymarine instructions recommend level for sailboats, and tipped
slightly downward for power boats that squat (or raise the bow) at
speed. Since most sailboats also squat at speed, I'd go with the dipped
slightly down for all boats, but increase the downward tilt if you like
to power at high speed in the fog!