Category: Fishing & Sonar

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Foulfree from Propspeed, clean transducers without biocide

Boats that spend a lot of time in the water typically have bottom paint applied to reduce fouling growth. Transducers are in the same water as the rest of the boat, but most bottom paint can’t be used on transducers. Unfortunately, the paints compatible with transducers aren’t as effective. Propspeed, the New Zealand based company that makes coatings for props, shafts, and underwater lights, has introduced Foulfree for transducers. Foulfree is a foul-release product, not a biocide and it’s the first product certified by Airmar for use on their transducers.

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Propspeed Introduces New Foulfree Coating for Transducers

Propspeed, leading innovator of underwater coatings, announced today the introduction of a revolutionary foul-release coating designed specifically for transducers –Foulfree. Designed by industry-leading engineers and designated by Airmar as a certified transducer coating, Foulfree releases marine growth, reducing the maintenance needed to keep transducers clean and streamlining water flow…

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Garmin expands flagship chartplotter line-up, brings full integration functionality to even more boaters with new GPSMAP Plus series

Garmin International, Inc., a unit of Garmin Ltd. (NASDAQ: GRMN), today announced the GPSMAP Plus series, the latest addition to its flagship GPSMAP lineup of premium multi-function displays (MFDs) that brings increased engine integration and OneHelm third-party integration across the full line…

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Cannon Modernizes Downrigger Technology with Connected Optimum Downrigger

Cannon, long the gold standard in trolling dependability and performance, is bringing modern connected technology to the category with its new Optimum Downrigger, which will debut at ICAST. The product brings the One-Boat Network to life in trolling applications and fully integrates with Humminbird fish finders, Fish Hawk electronics, a new mobile app and other Optimum downriggers wirelessly…

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Dinghy as depth scout with Garmin QuickDraw Contours

My boating career started in the generally deep waters of the Great Lakes where the prevailing wisdom is: If you can’t see it, you can’t hit it.  But cruising the Great Loop taught me the perils of shallow water boating, especially because our props hang lower than any other part of the hull by two feet.  So I’ve gotten creative in an effort to make shallow water boating involve fewer clunks of running gear meeting bottom, and the most effective technique I’ve found so far is advanced scouting with our dinghy using the QuickDraw bottom survey feature of its Garmin Echomap 64cv.

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Raymarine Launches New Lighthouse NC2 North American Charts

Raymarine is excited to announce a new digital cartography product for Raymarine
Axiom and Element products. LightHouse NC2 North America offers high-quality vector charts for the continental United States, Alaska, Hawaii, western Caribbean, Baja Peninsula, U.S. and Canadian Great Lakes, and British Columbia. Covering over 80,000 miles of coastal waters and over 6,000 inland freshwater lakes and rivers, LightHouse NC2 North America offers advanced features for every class of boater and angler.  Fishing tips and waterway intel derived from expertly sourced Fishing Hot Spots® ensure you spend more time catching fish and less time looking for them.