Sailboats and RealVision 3D Transducers

[Chuck - Raymarine - Moderator]

Welcome to the Raymarine Forum DRFASailboater,

While RealVision imaging was developed to primarily address the needs of fishermen, there is nothing inherent within the technology which would prohibit its use on a sailing vessel. Transom mounted transducers would not be recommended for sailing vessels. Should the deadrise of the transducer installation location on a sailing vessel be within deadrise range specified for the thru-hull RealVision transducer(s), then it would indeed be possible to install an RV transducer on a sailing vessel.

RealVision transducers are not designed to supply a system with speed through water data. Given your other thread where you have indicated that the system will feature an i70S MFID, it would be recommended that the system additionally be fitted with an iTC-5 to which a Raymarine thru-hull analog instrument speed/temp transducer will be interfaced. Multipoint speed calibration of the speed transducer will be accomplished via the i70S MFID.