modernizing a simple 1977 V20 hull.
I have handheld vhf units and will be mostly on rivers and lakes but decided to add a vhf unit for the 25 watt transmission range as a safety feature in addition to my cell phone. I bought a Cobra unit on Ebay and a 48" antenna and there is a side mount already there without vhf or antenna from original owner. In terms of dashboard for the big outboard I am just going with the Garmin 541s which is a gps for speed, chartplotter for location (minor value to me on this boat) and the S is for sonar with transom mount two frequency selectable sonar 50/200 hz. The 50 reads depth deeper and the 200 reads it in more detail.
The boat has an old hummingbird transducer on the stern so I kept it the same but Garmin.
I also am going to install a new negative or ground buss (black wires) and a new positive fused (red) with spade fuses behind the cuddy bulkhead wall to feed things from the battery to and get rid of inline fuses, if any, glass tube fuses, if any. I have all the parts and it is simple stuff to do. One feed from these busses will be to the new gps and another to the new vhf radio. The antenna side mount can pivot down to lay on the coaming or vertical to use.
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