[other tom]

Ed, Fellowship has the idea. I don't know if I showed it to you on the Whitewater, but thats essentially what I did too. With the brass football 'ducer, I get great depth when swordfishing in 1500', and can read at speed (until above 50 when the transom is not really in the water anyways). Plus , less turbulence sent down stream to the props, less caviatation, less drag and you can't punch it back through the hull when trailering. Cut the football shaped hole, and glass it in flush.