Looking for picture of transducer mounted on the transom of seadoo boat?

[meadmayhem]

Trying to get some ideas on how to mount this thing.

I order my fish finder today. To avoid some drilling in the boat I am consider using this item called the "stern saver".

http://www.sternsaver.com/

I have a 2006 Sportster. Hopefully the pictures of the back of my boat will work

Any pics or help you can give me I appreciate it.

 

[seadoosnipe]

I don't think I'd like to drill any holes in my hull either. I would get a really nice marine epoxy and just glue it on. When I open the link, they look like they want to sell you something for about $60 bucks, to do what you can probably do for the cost of the epoxy. If you just want to glue on that special bracket they are offereing, then your good. But, if you pinch pennies like I do, you can come up with a way to mount your transducer, without drilling holes in your hull, by using some nice marine epoxy and skipping the middle man.

 

[Stern Saver]

I don't think I'd like to drill any holes in my hull either. I would get a really nice marine epoxy and just glue it on. When I open the link, they look like they want to sell you something for about $60 bucks, to do what you can probably do for the cost of the epoxy. If you just want to glue on that special bracket they are offereing, then your good. But, if you pinch pennies like I do, you can come up with a way to mount your transducer, without drilling holes in your hull, by using some nice marine epoxy and skipping the middle man.

If you look closely to the pictures you will see that it has six threaded wells in the back of the block (patent pending design) which allows the cured adhesive to form a super strong mechanical bond with the HDPE block. The Stern Saver is machined with special tools to achieve this, something that you cannot accomplish with standard power tools at home. Furthermore, extensive testing of adhesives were done in the development of the product and a specially formulated adhesive is supplied with the kit (not 5200), along with everything else you need to install it, such as sandpaper, mounting spike, template acetone prep pads, gloves and instructions.

Neither epoxy, nor 5200 can effectively bond to plain ol' HDPE or StarBoard. It is the mechanical bond that the Stern Saver forms that allows this to happen. Otherwise, you would have seen a product like this years ago without the wells in the back of it. I get calls all the time about people's homemade jobs falling off while offshore. Not cool. The Stern Saver is the real deal, and it installs in ten minutes or less. The convenience and bond strength make this a "no brainer" vs going homemade. And it looks better. Sorry, not trying to spam here, just wanted to clear up any misunderstandings about bonding HDPE to your hulls.

 

[thouser]

Cable runs for the fishfinder with the Stern Saver installed? Where/how?

Does anyone have any pictures of what they've done with the cable leads up to the fishfinder? I like the Stern Saver idea but I'm not sure where/how to rout the cables up through the hull to the head unit. Any help would be greatly appreciated. (I own a 2004 Seadoo Sportster 4-TEC 155HP.)
Thanks! --T

If you look closely to the pictures you will see that it has six threaded wells in the back of the block (patent pending design) which allows the cured adhesive to form a super strong mechanical bond with the HDPE block. The Stern Saver is machined with special tools to achieve this, something that you cannot accomplish with standard power tools at home. Furthermore, extensive testing of adhesives were done in the development of the product and a specially formulated adhesive is supplied with the kit (not 5200), along with everything else you need to install it, such as sandpaper, mounting spike, template acetone prep pads, gloves and instructions.

Neither epoxy, nor 5200 can effectively bond to plain ol' HDPE or StarBoard. It is the mechanical bond that the Stern Saver forms that allows this to happen. Otherwise, you would have seen a product like this years ago without the wells in the back of it. I get calls all the time about people's homemade jobs falling off while offshore. Not cool. The Stern Saver is the real deal, and it installs in ten minutes or less. The convenience and bond strength make this a "no brainer" vs going homemade. And it looks better. Sorry, not trying to spam here, just wanted to clear up any misunderstandings about bonding HDPE to your hulls.