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    Calibrating your depth-sounder

    Nick Burnham Nick Burnham August 24, 2012

    Ensure your crew know about offset

    Once you have set up your depth instrument either to show total water depth or depth below lowest point, make a label and stick it next to the readout so anyone else who helms the boat knows what the depth display is telling them.

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