Slider70
Senior Member
In 2020 I purchased a forward looking sounder adding to my electronics. I did this as I plan to go into areas on the mid to upper BC coast that I have never been in before. In my precious life I've commercial fished on this coast for almost 30 years. I have 'found' numerous errors in the charted depths shown on our Canadian charts. I have questions how some of these mistakes could have been missed but they were.
Grounding can happen to anyone. If you think you are immune to this happening to you your likely a larger candidate for it to happen? And yes, I have struck the bottom on a few occasions during my commercial life. Fortunately I was always able to get off quickly as I realized I was in that danger and had slowed down to a crawl. My now forward looking electronics is just a bit more insurance to hopefully avoid grounding in future?
Grounding can happen to anyone. If you think you are immune to this happening to you your likely a larger candidate for it to happen? And yes, I have struck the bottom on a few occasions during my commercial life. Fortunately I was always able to get off quickly as I realized I was in that danger and had slowed down to a crawl. My now forward looking electronics is just a bit more insurance to hopefully avoid grounding in future?