Bye bye tax return, it was nice knowing you
I've just wired up the sounder in the Slayer and tested it with a multimeter to check I did in fact wire the batteries in parallel. The next job is to attach the rod holders, the Slayer has a bunch of tracks for attaching things too but the Berkley Quickset rod holder bases have a hole right through them so there's no way to easily attach them to the sliders in the tracks. There's a couple of P-clips to attach in order to finalise the anchor trolley too. Once that's done it's good to go.
The Stealth needs a bunch of work done on it, fortunately Eoin at Seasherpa has offered to help out with that, I am hoping to use the same sounder head unit on both yaks but I'm going to need a new transducer, power cable and mounting bracket for this one. It'll hopefully end up with a similar rod holder assembly to what Cheaterparts did for my Prowler. With any luck the internal rod storage will mean this is the end of losing all my stuff in the surf!
Unfortunately this means it's the end of the line for the Prowler, it's been a great yak to get me started and has racked up a lot of kilometers including out to the 60m line at Portland. If anyone is looking for a decent beginner kayak with the speed and stability to handle some pretty average conditions and a sweet custom made rod holder assembly and a few other bits and pieces let me know.
