prokat26

Just took out my new boat for a the first run. And I am really impressed with the inhull performance on my cat. I opened the throttles and hit 46 mph before I pulled back on the new engines and to my amazement, it never lost bottom or screwed up the image. I can't wait to get on the gulf. I am glad I did not wimp out and get the transome 600 watt transducer.

Bullshipper

Thats great news. Thanks for the tip. Reception is usually tough on cats due to many strakes in a confined shallow area.

Mumblerone

Outstanding! How about some PICs.

prokat26

I will get some pictures soon. I was worried about the location of the transducer in the port hull almost at the transom. The guys at the factory told me they put them there all the time. I had read in Airmars manual to place them more amid ship to get them away from engines and possible cavitation. I was worried about thier of locations, but in many cat hulls the locations where you can place an inhull transducer with service access is limited. I rigged this boat with the C-120, DSM-250, Alpha# Keypad, waas GPS, radar, and a KVH 1000 fluxgate compass. I will more than likely ad autopilot after I recover the gapeing hole left in my wallet.

Other than the initial check out run, I have not been able to use the boat on the water, so I have alot to learn about the C-120 and all the features. This unit will keep me learing all the trick for many months to come.

Tireless

I would really appreciate some info on the aux. keypad. My biggest complaint about Raymarine (I have two units already) is the lack of a keypad which makes you have to do a lot of toggling just to enter a waypoint and description. Thanks in advance.

Mumblerone

Tireless...we went with the remote kepad also on the new Raymarine E-System, still to come. Kinda makes sense to put it in a 'convient' spot to use while looking at display. I know Furuno has theirs on the unit. With the keypad, you don't have to reach to the display to enter data, possibly at an ackward angle. They only cost $150.00 or so, and plug right in. "What's not to like?"

Thom

My question is much simpler. Do you have a B256, which is a thru-hull transducer in which the transducer itself resides on the outside of the hull with a stem passing through the bottom of one of your pontoons, or do you actually have an M256, which would be the one which mounts inside the hull, inside a big yellow plastic tank, and which was discontinued about a year ago, shortly after it release?

Thom

Tireless

Mumblerone - thanks. I will be buying one of those things this winter. It would be great to have it on the helm station like you said.

TOP DOG

I have the same setup in my boat. It works great. I still need to get a splitter so that I can also run a sea temp from the C120.

prokat26

My transducer is the one in the yellow tank. The factory installed it and filled it with mineral oil. I decided to opt out of having the temp and speed feature as with some of the transome mounted and thruhull types, but on a new boat I did not want to make a hole in the hull. I was advised that thruhulls on cats can be tricky. I will more than likely add the temp and speed feature at a later date. Besides I have speed with my yamaha setup and my C-120 as well, I do not need a third way of telling my speed. Today I installed the KVH 1000 on the dash and hooked up the power and got now errors. I will hook up the nema out to the C-120 in to give the info for my radar/chart overlay.

keypad is listed on raymarine website. It allows you to have a keypad similar to a telephone where you can enter alphabet as you would with a phone. It is plug and play for my system, however depending on your setup you may need to have a seatalk hub connector.