"Gabriel Latrémouille" wrote in
:

Are there any arguments for and against using either one on a
sailboat.


Gabriel


I think the most important data you get, on a sailboat or any boat, from
the depth sounder is "How close is the bottom to the keel?", you know, that
awful crunching sound.

I'd much rather have a charting "fishfinder" than that stupid digital
readout from the sailing instruments, any time. With the fishfinder's
chart you can easily see the TREND of the bottom, coming up shallow,
staying level or going deeper. You'd have to log the depth on the digital
sounder to see a trend. I'm too old and busy to keep all those numbers in
my head.

Aboard Lionheart, the old Garmin 185 GPS/fishfinder is the most valued
depth indication....not the B&G Depth instrument behind it.