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11-25-2016, 11:52 AM
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Senior Member
City: Toronto
Vessel Name: Adios Dinero
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Limpet Mines look sort of like what you are describing, did you buy the boat at a Drug confiscation auction.
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11-25-2016, 12:05 PM
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Guru
City: Sarasota/Ft. Lauderdale
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Sounds like a transducer.
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11-25-2016, 12:47 PM
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Senior Member
City: Coastal SC
Vessel Model: Viking 65 CP MY (run at trawler speeds !)
Join Date: Jul 2015
Posts: 389
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Capt.Bill11
Sounds like a transducer.
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Actually that does make the most sense...but it seems huge for that purpose..do they make transducers the size of a shoe box ? Is there anything inside a typical external depth transducer or are they solid metal ?
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11-25-2016, 12:50 PM
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#24
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Guru
City: South Florida
Join Date: Sep 2014
Posts: 1,088
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11-25-2016, 01:15 PM
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Guru
City: North Charleston, SC
Join Date: Sep 2010
Posts: 4,870
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Keysdisease
I think Capt Bill is right. Large 1 kw Transducers can look as you describe. Airmar makes the Chirp in several shapes and sizes including a "shoebox" looking critter
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Perhaps, but I would think the people in a boatyard would recognize a transducer.
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11-25-2016, 01:18 PM
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Senior Member
City: Coastal SC
Vessel Model: Viking 65 CP MY (run at trawler speeds !)
Join Date: Jul 2015
Posts: 389
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Keysdisease
I think Capt Bill is right. Large 1 kw Transducers can look as you describe. Airmar makes the Chirp in several shapes and sizes including a "shoebox" looking critter
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Man, those big ones are expensive. I hope he's right as the previous owner upgraded all the electronics about 4 or 5 years ago, including a new transducer (much smaller and more water dynamic shape). So I could have the yard just remove the thing and plug up the hole in the hull....but I need to be there when they do it in case some diamonds fall out....
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11-25-2016, 01:25 PM
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Guru
City: Satsuma FL
Vessel Name: No Mo Trawla
Vessel Model: Hurricane SS188
Join Date: Jul 2014
Posts: 2,300
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Could it be some kind of sensor for a stabilizer or a stabilizer than didn't work out?
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11-25-2016, 01:55 PM
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Guru
City: Sarasota/Ft. Lauderdale
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Donsan
Could it be some kind of sensor for a stabilizer or a stabilizer than didn't work out?
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I highly doubt it.
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11-25-2016, 01:56 PM
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#29
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Guru
City: Sarasota/Ft. Lauderdale
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Quote:
Originally Posted by WesK
Perhaps, but I would think the people in a boatyard would recognize a transducer.
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Ha! You're a funny man! 😊
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11-25-2016, 02:01 PM
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Senior Member
City: Coastal SC
Vessel Model: Viking 65 CP MY (run at trawler speeds !)
Join Date: Jul 2015
Posts: 389
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Donsan
Could it be some kind of sensor for a stabilizer or a stabilizer than didn't work out?
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No......I do have usual Naiad stabilizers, but thinking everthing for those except the fins is inside.
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11-25-2016, 02:27 PM
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City: Quebec
Vessel Name: Bleuvet
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It is indeed a transducer put there by CIA to be able to follow your boat via secret satellite. Didn't you know that the PO of your boat was pablo escobar? Now diamonds are becoming more and more plausible!
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11-25-2016, 05:30 PM
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Senior Member
City: Oakland
Vessel Name: Arcangel
Vessel Model: Buewater 40
Join Date: Oct 2016
Posts: 149
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It's very clear for me.. it's a warp accelerator neutrino controlled... now you need to find the way to accelerate and brake before reach Jupiter..
PD: don't tell NASA you found one...
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11-25-2016, 05:42 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2007
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Dune
Yes indeedy..... hard to know without some measuring as to what area it in in exactly on the inside hull....but as previously mentioned my guess is it is about where the pump for the watermaker is...and yet that doesn't necessarily mean the watermaker thru hull is right there under the pump....will have to look see....plus it makes no sense why a water maker would need this box in the first place....
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call viking and ask them? that boat was built in st Pete Florida i delivered a few of them to new York back in 1989, may be even yours? they were built in the old gulf star factory.
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11-25-2016, 07:19 PM
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Senior Member
City: Coastal SC
Vessel Model: Viking 65 CP MY (run at trawler speeds !)
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Quote:
Originally Posted by capt jerry
call viking and ask them? that boat was built in st Pete Florida i delivered a few of them to new York back in 1989, may be even yours? they were built in the old gulf star factory.
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Actually no it wasn't....was built in NJ along with the convertible Vikings. But you are right that it's heritage is a Gulfstar 55. But by 1993 this was a new design....with bulwark bow, no bow pulpit, a day head near the galley and salon, and other changes.
Designed from the get go to be a cockpit motor yacht...but previous owner did extend the aft deck and added lots of storage under that deck accessable via doors in the cockpit. It even has a third control station, usable in the cockpit (behind the smallest door on the starboard side)
As to asking Viking...highly unlikely they would know....Lazarra might know. But I won't bother him with it.... I'll figure it out next time I visit the boat on the hard...probably this Wednesday.
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11-25-2016, 07:31 PM
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TF Site Team
City: Ex-Brisbane, (Australia), now Bribie Island, Qld
Vessel Name: Now boatless - sold 6/2018
Vessel Model: Had a Clipper (CHB) 34
Join Date: Jun 2008
Posts: 10,101
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Dune
Yes indeedy..... hard to know without some measuring as to what area it in in exactly on the inside hull....but as previously mentioned my guess is it is about where the pump for the watermaker is...and yet that doesn't necessarily mean the watermaker thru hull is right there under the pump....will have to look see....plus it makes no sense why a water maker would need this box in the first place....
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Well, a water-maker does need to draw in seawater from which to produce your desalinated water, so it probably is an intake for that, with the strainer close in on the keel side (where you can't see) so it is less likely to suck in jellyfish and similar detritus. If it is not the intake for the water-maker, it has to b a possibly redundant sonar transducer, if there is no lead now connecting to it inside, I would suggest.
I now have a couple of those. Really annoyed me that newer sonars could no longer use the ones I had through the hull. To avoid more haul-outs to fit them, and more holes in the hull, my replacement transducers are all stuck to the inside of the hull in good places with black Sikaflex, and work fine, by the way, but I don't ever go in really deep water.
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11-25-2016, 07:37 PM
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Senior Member
City: Coastal SC
Vessel Model: Viking 65 CP MY (run at trawler speeds !)
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Posts: 389
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter B
I now have a couple of those. Really annoyed me that newer sonars could no longer use the ones I had through the hull. To avoid more haul-outs to fit them, and more holes in the hull, my replacement transducers are all stuck to the inside of the hull in good places with black Sikaflex, and work fine, by the way, but I don't ever go in really deep water.
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FWIW, I also have an inside depth transducer...round in shape....for a 1990's vintage digital depth display unit (forget the manuf)....which is sort of nice to confirm the much newer multi-function Raymarine color display is in agreement. Only annoyance is the older unit seems to have no backlight and kinda hard to read sometimes.
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11-25-2016, 08:41 PM
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#37
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City: kemah
Join Date: May 2015
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Hit it repeatedly with a big hammer. When the yard finishes repairing it, check back and let us know what it was.
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11-25-2016, 09:14 PM
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#38
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Guru
City: SF Bay Area
Vessel Model: Tollycraft 34' Tri Cabin
Join Date: Feb 2011
Posts: 12,569
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Mermaid tampon dispenser??
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11-26-2016, 06:53 AM
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City: Vermont
Join Date: Jan 2013
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Something must be connected to it on the inside of the boat - either a cable if it's a transducer, or a hose if it's an intake scoop/screen. You need to locate it on the inside of the boat.
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11-26-2016, 10:19 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2007
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Dune
Actually no it wasn't....was built in NJ along with the convertible Vikings. But you are right that it's heritage is a Gulfstar 55. But by 1993 this was a new design....with bulwark bow, no bow pulpit, a day head near the galley and salon, and other changes.
Designed from the get go to be a cockpit motor yacht...but previous owner did extend the aft deck and added lots of storage under that deck accessable via doors in the cockpit. It even has a third control station, usable in the cockpit (behind the smallest door on the starboard side)
As to asking Viking...highly unlo NJikely they would know....Lazarra might know. But I won't bother him with it.... I'll figure it onteriorut next time I visit the boat on the hard...probably this Wednesday.
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it was not a new design the 63s and 74s had the same setup,they built all of the motor yachts down there the 44s 55s 63s 74s 82s then they shut it down and the boats that were not finished were run up to NJ with no interior and finished up there. somr layed around up there for 2 or three yrs
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