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Unfortunately I assisted to a similar episode with different and tragic consequences. It was a small inflatable tender and the owner died on the beach for the horrible injuries due to the propeller. Not wearing a kill switch lanyard on such a small and exposed boat is more criminal than stupid...

Never met a lpg tank or a wood plank floating half submergend in the sea? I wonder what could happen if you hit one at 85 mph...

Mud Runner, thank you very much for the confirmation of the code. That's very reassuring for me.

I have to wait until monday... :-(

Thank you, Ludicrous, for the quick answer. I'm not sure if a two stroke could have the same error codes as a four. Nevertheless it seems reasonable, since I had some difficulties, before the alert started, to sincronize rpm on the faulting engine...

Can anybody tell me the meaning of error code 18 in a Yamaha F150, before I'm able to get official assistance on Monday? TIA Aldo P.S.: I'm posting in every forum I know since I'm quit anxious to know what happened today. The gauge flashed 'check engine' and cutted rpm and I had to go back with one engine at 8 kts...

Congratulations for the catch! Big amberjacks are my reference target in my area and, modestly, I'm one of the kings of them... I traveled for fishing blues sometimes, but a 70 lb amberjack in the Mediterranean sea is way more tricky than a 200lb blue in the Caribbean, due to the shallow and rocky bottom. Amberjacks are very clever fishes, trying everything to make themselves free against the bottom or submerged structures, like wrecks or pillars. In the video you post, you risked a lot staying so close to those submerged pillars. A 200 yds run is very common for an amberjack trying to reach something on which to rub the line or the hook... http://digilander.libero.it/avanini/myfishes01.htm

Thank you all! I solved the problem that was a combination of factors. The main one was a lack of medium in the transducer case. I'm using echography gel thinking but, for some reason, it losed some volume. I added a little amount of antifreeze fluid and now it works wonderfully, reading a 150' bottom at 25 kts. The secondary problem was that the C120 was set for a P66 instead of P79. I suppose that the C120 lose the correct setup due to the wrong signal due to the bad medium in the case...

Hi all. I have a Raymarine C120 display with a GPS 120 and a DSM30+P79 in-hull transducer. Everything was working well until last sunday, when the fishfinder display started not to read the bottom and to show a series of alternate thickness surface bands, but no bottom and no digits. The image is very similar to the picture that some other member published on the forum like the following (this is not my boat, repeat, but the echo image is the same, whatever the bottom and the depth) I tried many different setup (spped, frequence, power, gain) with no success. I checked, but not very seriously since the sea was very rough and demanding, the connectors and they seemed (repeat, seemed) ok. The transducer installation is perfect, with echography gel inside. Any suggestion? TIA

Often good luck and foolishness go together. Nobody got hurt, just the common sense...

Whenever I see similar pictures, I asked myself what would happen of me if I was there on my boat instead of the rocks... That happened just tonight in the North side of my Island (North Sardinia, La Maddalena Archipelago)... 75 ft, 2k hp, 2009, russian owner, newzealand crew...

From the Mediterranean Sea... Pursuit OS255

A thermodynamical and hydrodynamical nightmare...

That's a good question. Usually they haven't. Just once I caugth one full of 'worms' on its skin. It was a big one, around 60 pounds, but with a very old scar from a dolphin bite (from the shape of the bite), cutting a large chunk of the caudal fin. I caught it very close to the bottom that isn't usual for amberjack. I guess that, due to the wound, that amberjack had to change its behaviour, ambushing its preys in a environment close to the bottom and with a very static approach, becoming an easy target for parasites. I'm afraid you can't see very much from the picture below, but that was the subject of this story...