A good signal through ply? ...All of the received knowledge is that it doesn't work,....
Or has Matt hoodwinked you and sold you a plastic boat...
Hi, Folks.
Yeah, I was surprised it worked. Unbearably smug about it, too!
The handbook said “only through solid GRP”, which is why I spent ages faffing around with sticks, string, demountable brackets and various other constructions, trying to hang the damn thing over the side. I only found the truth when, in a fit of pique and frustration, I threw it onto the cockpit floor. It rolled the right way up in a pool of rainwater after a tack– only about 2mm deep – and, some time later, I noticed the screen behaving like the picture on the box.
I actually assumed it had gone into Demo Mode at first!
Im quite pleased that I don’t have to put it on E-Bay (along with all my other expensive mistakes) and that, after a bit of fiddling about – sorry, Experimentation – I now have it mounted more or less permanently with all the wiring tucked neatly out of harms way.
Being a portable model brings the disadvantage that you can’t screw it down - but you can, by using Velcro pads, stick it to different places in the cockpit depending on whether you are sailing or fishing and you can remove it altogether to avoid theft in iffy moorings.
Just goes to show that, in some circumstances, you can’t beat trying stuff out for yourself to solve a problem. (Classic exception: Hmmm. I wonder if this electric heater will warm my bathwater?)
Lots of so-called experts are just guys that read a book once.
There you go. That’s an epigram, that is.
(As opposed to an epiglottis, Julian, which is what I would get punched up if I called ANY of Matt’s boats PLASTIC, in that disparaging tone, to his face – even the GRP ones.)
JOKE:
Qu: How can you tell a plastic BayRaider from a wooden one?
Ans: From the sound they make when they bounce off a battleship.
(Well, I didn’t say it was a GOOD joke, did I?)
