Just bought a 2nd hand boat that came with a Furuno sounder.

The power plug was corroded up and wouldn't go in.

I managed to clean it out but still no go.

Any chance someone not too far fro Forrestfield is running one of these?

Thought I might be able to plug it in and check if the head unit is working before purchasing a new cable and going to the trouble to install it.

Happy to arrive with a 6 pack of your choice for your trouble. 

 Hey crew, 

Bought a boat in January and doing a refurb, it has a Lowrance Elite 9 TI2 but I'm thinking of using it as a chart plotter and getting a Furuno. Chasing a 587 or 588 with a P66 as I won't go out deep. Any recommendations or anyone have anything laying around please let me know. 

 Gday Guys and Girls 

Recently bought a fcv 800 and run a TM260 on it .

I wanted and wide beam in close so i bought a P66 that has a 45 degree cone .

I want to run both at the same time But XDR2 only has chirp on offer .

Anyway to get around this .

I thought i could plug the 260 into the xdr2 and the p66 into the xdr1 but not offering for 1kw on the xdr2 .

any halp appreciated .

Tilb 

Sorry guys,

Unable to attached photos on the last topic.

 HI All

I have a furuno 628 hooked up to a garmin 952xs plus via markfish , just wondering if anyone has the settings for the garmin as the NMEA 0183 in this newer model and

has bulk settings and options, i know they are connecting in some way as the furuno when i hit the mark button shows the gps position but when i hit enter or mark again it dosen't transfer 

the mark over to the garmin.

I have followed furuno settings from previous posts on this site but am lost for what the garmin should be 

Hi Fishwrecked Crew,

Can some help interpret the images attached.

Your expert review and suggestion will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Mallesh

 Got some info from Stevo58 to post for him and also the colour photo is from Facebook.  Hopefully it helps some people.

 Hi all, 

Just after some advice to link my 585 to my gp1971f unit so I can use the Mark button on the 585 to place a mark on the plotter (gp1971f unit).

i have heard I just need a furuno data cable NMEA 0183 to link them together. Has anyone had luck this way? I was also reading up on the Markfish units as another option, though this may be more expensive. 

Do I need a NMEA 0183 to 2k cable ,Was my other query.

Cheers

Steve

 Hi FW Crew.

Currently running a GP1971 & TM260 on the dash, which is working great. Only issue I have is that I can't see the screen from the fishing area on the deck, so looking to get an additional display mounted up high on the dash on a bracket. From what I've read I don't think you can run two GP1971F units networked, but was wondering if there was any other kind of display that could be used. The second screen doesn't need any funtionality, just needs to display what's on the screen of the GP1971.

Appreciate any advice or suggestions.

Cheers,

BD.

 Hi,  Is it possible to change the symbol from large/small fish to an arch?  It doesn't seem to be an option in the menu.  Just symbol on/off.

 Hi FW Crew.

Currently running a GP1971 with transom mounted P66, and looking at doing some deeper work in 200-250m depths. Due to hull arrangement will need to be transom mounted, so thinking TM260 will be the go. Anyone running a set up like this and can comment on performance in those sort of depths? Or should I be looking at something that offers Chirp, and why?

Cheers,

BD.

Wanting a Furuno FCV585 Sounder ideally or newer model but realistically looking at a good deal second had so please inbox if you can help me out, thanks 

Here is a few screen shots of fcv295 and ss175H, only done a couple of trips so far and happy with the results. 

 Hi Crew.

A couple of weekends ago I had all my electronics stolen off my boat. The mungrels stole my 10 inch Lowrance dash mounted sounder, even took the TM260. They left all the screws, that was nice of them.

Anyway, so I now have the opportunity to upgrade the sounder.

I will be replacing it with Furuno TZT3 12inch which has Chirp capability.

Ive never had or used Chirp before. so my question is, is it any good?  Or alternatively, should I stay with traditional echo??

I definately dont have a problem with traditional sounder, and at this stage I will get another TM260. (The transducer needs to be transom mount.)

If I choose to go with the Chirp, the transducer required will be the TM265LH.

The only difference I see with Chirp is it may be better at fish seperation, but with my fishing, I tend to look for ground not necessarily fish schools. 

I fish general ground, 30m to 90m's with the odd occasional deep drop, so the 1kw is a not a comprimise.

Chasing some advise please. Thanks. 

Cheers

Hi I was wondering if some one can help me get my markfish to work? I have a 295 and want to link it to an hds7. I have wired it up going by the wiring diagrams for the 295 and markfish so im pretty sure I have that bit right. I have it set on 0183 in the 295 and have put in settings on the hds following previous threads on here but still can't get them to link. I have 11 satellites showing on the hds. When I press mark on the 295 it says no data position so I'm thinking it is something to do with the settings in the hds? Any help would be appreciated thanks. 

 Was on Facebook this morning and someone had put up a post about the new update for the 1871 & 1971gp units. I have done the update now I just have to put my navionics onto a sd card, will be handy to get all my spots too. 

hey blokes just been reading a couple stories here and elsewhere about the cmaps4d continental chart that comes with the gp1971 isn’t much good here in wa, and was wondering if anyone had upgraded to the local cmaps4d version (Darwin to Esperance), and whether it was worth it. 

Cheers 

paul

 School of medium size dhus

 I recently acquired a 1971F.  I'm really happy with the sounder side of things, but the chart it came bundled with (CMAP 4D Australia Wide) is pretty ordinary, and seems tocontain much less contour detail than the navionics mobile app. 

Is there a better Furuno compatible chart out there?  I mainly fish August to Jurien.

gday,  

ive tried looking online for the back mounting assembly for a furuno  587 but can’t find buggar all, only the swivel base mount is available. Just thought id put it out there to see if anyone had one to sell? Thanks

 Hey guys , I'm in the process of getting an upgrade to the new (second hand) boat - Alison Angler195.

 The hull has a keel plank and after inspection the advice is to go for a B164 through the plank to avoide strake bubbles with a shoot through or TM.

 After checking out the specs on the Airmar site I would like to know of peoples experience with A scope in deeper water having read that A scope shows whats directly under.

 The b164 cone is pretty big in deep water so I hope the A scope will put me ontop to pinpoint.

https://www.airmar.com/bottom-calculator.html?refid=B164

 Hi guys anyone run one of these furuno sounder/chartplotter units?

Would love to hear your experiences with these units.

Cheers 

 Couple of sounder shots running a 1kw medium chirp. Seems to be deadly when I run my 588 with a b260 and my 1871f with medium chirp.

After a number of setbacks with the boat and installing a new fuel tank I finally got out to play with the new Furuno DFF3d setup.

Is a really different look and takes a bit to get used to after using the traditional Furuno sounder.

1st pic is the 3d view and the 2nd is the same ground in traditional sounder view.

The 3d view really lets you understand where the boat is in relation to the structure.

Picture 3 really highlights this with a mix of traditional, 3d and triple beam.

You can see the lumps on the traditional screen but the 3d shows that the lumps are positioned in different lines to the boat.

The triple beam gives you 3 differrent cones and allows you to tell if the better return is on the port starboard or under the boat.

Plan to play a lot more with this especially out around 180-200m so will be interesting to see how it goes.

Thought I would share some pics from the weekend. Finally got out deeper after a heap of rework on the boat and electronics. 

The furuno DFF3d was working in 200m+ at 20 knots. Very impressed with that as I still need to worek on settings.

 Hi all

I'm having some problems with my furuno 585  It has a tm258 1kw transducer I have to have the gain up crazy high to pick up bottom in 50m of water I have to have the gain at 8 to pick up bottom and anything over 60m gain is on 10 and at 110m I loose bottom totally even if I am in neutral still wont pick up bottom but once I get back to 110m it starts to pick up bottom again but very patchy no chance of seeing fish until back in the 50m range could the tranny be stuffed? It doesn't get any clutter on the screen with a high gain like my old previous boat would with the same sounder. I'm running it in HF if I switch to LF the screen is just full of clutter and wont get any ground image.  Not sure how old it is  it came with the boat. Do I just bite the bullet and get another transducer.

Cheers Rod

Hey guys, just wondering how deep anyone has had a clear reading of the bottom with a 628?

Ive heard many different stories but if you have a picture of any deep stuff that would be great.

Cheers

 What do you think these small flares are soft corals ? Sponge ? Fish ? What are your thoughts ?

 A few screen shots over the last few months all perth metro.

Thought a few people may be interested in these comparisons.

The first set of pics is comparing a HDS Gen2 with P66, a garmin 8410 with M265 and a Furuno 585 with P66.

The second set is much the same, but includes the garmin with both a GT51 (left) and M265 (right). To be fair, i had someone hanging over the stern of the boat holding the GT51 so it isnt a great picture.

To make it easy, they were all just running in Auto, no zoom etc.

 

 Hi all

IS there any benefit of upgrading a 585 to a 588 running a tm260 transducer. I'm struggling to see any massive benefits compared to cost. Does anyone actually use the accufish function???

Cheers

Rod