Quote Originally Posted by HURRICANEBOB View Post
Look at your live wells too. Some have no wave board, and when full, if they run across the beam, they can slosh and shift weight around a lot.

Adding a wave board can also slow down some of the rocking. Reduces or slows weight shift.
My live well is on the Starboard side of my boat where I also sit. So add my 200+ lbs with the Weight of 5 gallons of live well water to the Starboard Side of my boat.

I added 75 lbs of lead shot plus a couple of weights (the type you use on weight lifting barbells for bench presses etc) and now my boat sit's level in the water.

I use to put an old lead acid battery on the top back portion of my boat near the transom to level my boat. But that only works if the live well is empty. Add 5 gallons of water to the live well and the weight of a few fish and I'm listing to starboard again.

Now this is not so bad if you attach the SI transducer so that it's level with the water surface when the boat is listing. But if you straighten out the level of the boat then the transducer will be off and shooting higher on one side than the other. I'm only referring to the Side Scanning Transducer in this situation. It won't matter so much with a regular 2 d type transducer.

I like using the lead weights in the heavy cloth type bags with handles. Lead Sled Weight bags made out of a heavy canvas type bag. These are easy to put in the boat and take out and they don't move around like the round weights do.

Now that I have my SI transducer mounted and the boat level I am getting a trail of interference (straight line) on the left side of my SI Screen in the area where the water column is shown. This does not show up on the display when I use the contour mode and can't see the water column. I'm wondering if this is my motor blocking or reflecting some of the SI sonar waves.

If you have ever played the game "Dangerous Waters" and played with the Sonar Screens it looks like a broad band signal line on the screen just to the left of center where the boat is located on the SI display screen.