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Guide Boat
Profile: The Fly Guy - Captain Ray Chandler
Background
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Overview
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Neat Stuff-Part 1
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Neat Stuff-Part 2
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Parting Shot
Electronics
Ray's boat has the standard set of equipment: Ratheon L470 dual
frequency sonar, Uniden Solara VHF radio with 8 foot antenna, and a Garmin 126
mapping GPS unit . Click in one of the rectangles in the picture
on the right to see a close-up view.
R
ay chose a thru-hull transducer to provide the best sonar
image. The picture to the right shows his installation of the bronze
dual frequency / speed / temp transducer.
Other Stuff
Ray doesn't use live bait for chum, prefering instead to use frozen chum
buckets. As a result, he has plenty of room for the stock Edgewater
Captain's chairs. Note the position of the stern
quarter rails, and the completely open stern area.
Captain Ray currently stores the boat on a trailer in a storage yard, but
when he first purchased the boat, he had length constraints similar to those we
faced in Toy Boat 2. He wound up with a swing-away tongue on his
Pacific Trailer. Note that he does not have brakes on the trailer.
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