"Jim" wrote in message
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Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
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However, do you need a depth finder? If you can beach a 60 foot boat,
there can't be much draft to the vessel making the whole point of a
depth finder mute.

I was thinking that if you 'beach' a 60' boat, a through hull
would be the least of your worries. :^)

-Jim


Is done all the time with houseboats in Lake Mead and Lake Powell. Run the
bow on to the beach and an anchor off the stern. Run a gangplank down to
the beach to go ashore. I have an aluminum river jetboat and the transducer
is on a plate on the transom and just kicks up if you get too shallow. Run
over a small sandbar, or park the boat on top of a gravel bar. Gravel bar
is worst. Smashed one chine flat. $175 to repair.
Bill

Bill