How To Install Chartplotter / Fishfinder - Simrad NSS16 evo3S | EP 26 

Looks great. Consider sealing the cut-out opening with some resin just to make sure moister/water was not an issue for longevity.

I have the 3 in 1 transducer on my Simrad and I love it!!! Time to finish that beauty and get out on the water!!!

That console is like working with a blank canvas and that Preferred Marine Tec does clean & pretty work! Looks great so far, it's like a teaser video so you have to tune in to see what's next. I also have the Simrad EVO 3 16" down below and a 9" screen on my upper helm, I also went with HALO 5G radar and the AP44 controller for my autopilot. The only thing I was thinking mainly because I just did this a few months ago would be to black the console out with acrylic, it gave my 2008 Bluewater 2550 a whole new look. Congrats Mike, your boat is SO SICK!

I dig the cleanliness of the console. I put stock in how I feel in my boat too so I would have probably put 2 screens and filled up the console more with stuff just because I think it looks cool as hell! I can’t wait for this thing to be done and for you and Val to get it back on the water!

Love the boat and simple console layout. Can’t wait for the next episode. Been having serious boat and fishing withdrawals up here in New England. These episodes have helped me stay sane in between below freezing temps and snow storms. Keep em coming!

That Simrad is an absolute unit! I always laugh when I see the installer chewing gum while you’re recording 😂

I personally like what you did going with one bigger screen. I like simplicity. Having one unit able to do it all is perfect. The layout is clean and just plain ole works! Tight lines Capt!

Great to see how you are keeping the build clean and functional, with room for future upgrades. And your building it with FISHING in mind!

Boat is turning out awesome, can't wait to watch some fishing videos with it!

So close to the finish line!! Can’t wait for the final results and it’s first fishing trip, keep up the great work captain! 👍🏼👍🏼

I've stuck with this build from DAY 1. Impressed with all the tradesmen and the quality of work they all have done. The boat is beautiful! Very jealous. I am restoring an older Grady White 24' Caribbean. I am also going with a new engine bracket from a company down in FLA... they do it best in FLA. Electronics.... I like you am leaning towards SIMRAD. Sheesh, I would love to get the big screen like you but sadly I will need to go juuuuust a little bit smaller. I am looking forward to you showing us how that SIMRAD works while fishing. Congratulations!

Hi Mike, just replaced the electronics on my Boston Whaler, I went with Lowrance HDS12 on the dash supported with an HDS9 on the hardtop wired into the 4G radar. What makes all this work is the Ethernet hub and network, I can run any screen on either of the HDS units and I often mix and match depending on circumstances. I run a single total scan hard wired to the 12” but the 9” can also act as the sounder if required. Whichever unit I run in chart if I flag a point of interest it automatically appears on the other unit. Awesome redundancy and usability, I love it.....👍

I think I might have mounted it to the left in front of the wheel ... but I'm not standing there, you are. It's beautiful, Mike.

Looks like a simple working boat.....only thing I would change is a t-top for our South Florida sun and storms. Sharp looking boat👍

Hope you enjoy the boat half as much as I’ve enjoyed the series. The journey to a great finish. Wishing you much success

Can't wait to see that in action

Awesome that you found it, looks like the boat will be ready for spring time baby...sail away Captain 🌊

Nice big screen for old eyes, love it.

FINALLY !!! Enjoy it man. Hallandale Beach REPRESENT !

I have been watching this whole build series. You have got to be so anxious to get this new boat on the water!

Capt Mike awesome choice on the electronics. That is going to be really nice. If I was a Captain I'd be afraid of a single unit only because if it goes down like you mentioned it was hard to find the unit to begin with so you may be running without electronics for a little while if that happens. I feel your pain on this build, I bought a Rambo in Oct 2019, getting a total re engineer and rehab, and I am finally about 2 weeks from it being done. It's such a process working with small shops and it's been amazing to me how busy they have stated throughout a pandemic. Tight lines!

Looking good. Can’t wait to see it on the water. We run trip 300 Verados on our boat and that exhaust mode is awesome. Love hearing them rumble. Tight lines!

Love the series and the boat looks like a beauty, ill be heading to Florida for the first time, probably will be up by cape Canaveral for most of this trip. Fair winds and following seas

Can’t wait to see that boat finished!

Console is awesome and what I want mine to be. Fun fact, the reason he ran the drill backwards with a larger bit is so that when he runs a screw in it won’t crack or chip away the Gelcoat. And that is your install tip of the week. Cheers everybody.

Those guys at Preferred Marine are damn good. Your boat is sick!... Absolutely awesome!

Love the simplicity of the dash, I also like the lack of wires too, only wish I could fit a 16” display on my boat. But the 9” does the job fine.

Boat is looking sick! Heading to FLA in a few weeks, hoping to get some fishing in with my kids!!

So excited for you man.. Been watching you since day one. I personally think the console setup is perfect. Less is more sometimes. That simrad unit is a perfect choice. Can't wait to see the boat in action.. keepin em tight!!

I am a big fan of the Simrad at the top of the console like you have it mounted vs many builders who mount it lower with switches at the top.

The Simrad is beyond Too Cool for School! I look forward to a Vid or two on that piece of Kit alone; talk about One @ Done, it don't get any better than that!

Capt you getting closer to hit that water with all the best equipment in the industry and like that I'm learning a lot from al you video

I'm glad you went with the solo 16 inch simrad. It looks bad ass!!

Looking amazing Capt Mike. A dream boat is being born. I really appreciate you sharing this journey

Haven't even finished the video, just had to stop and give you kudos on the dope intro. Nice production! Back to the video. I'll be running simrads on my current build as well.

Hey Captain Mike, another Captain MIKE here ! Love the boat and design is well thought out for what you want to do.. Like the general layout of console so far, think I remember that you had a prior rendering done to show layout, but I think that was for a different screen if I'm recalling correctly... I guess I need to see where pipe tower is installed to think about anything else being added to that beautiful clean uncluttered console. If it's possible, can other accessories be flush or below flush mounted with covers made from consoles cut out sections ? Saw it on a boat show demo that was super cleanly done. The cutouts had a common lock on them to make electronics harder to steal, the accessories could only be removed from below, and had a metal box covering all installation items that was padlocked in a way to keep boltcutters etc from access ! If I win your schweet hoodie, I'm XXL ! Thanks For All The Videos !

cant wait to see you throw the net again from the new boat

love the simplicity of your new boat

I love SIMRAD, they're #1 in marine electronics !

It's coming together, Mike! Looks fantastic. Getting close buddy.

Gotta say the boat is looking great been watching from the beginning and can’t wait to see it out on the water.Tight line’s

Hey my dads been wanting a new radar for a long while now finally found the one perfect for him thanks for showing me keep up the good work and good luck on the boat build it’s coming together real nice 👍

Great video, well worth the wait to get things done right the first time cant wait to see it in the water.

Love how your boat is coming together, I'm hoping to do something similar for the south carolina area in a few years thanks for the information that you share.

Good little system for the boys playing on the weekend. Move up to real captain status and come push 15 barge two on the water. You will see why ROSE POINT IS KING IN MARINE NAVIGATION.

that 16" Simrad is sweeeeet ! cant wait to get on the water could use a hoodie up here in the freezing North Tight Lines Capt. Mike

I love the color of the hull Capt Mike. Good luck with the rest of the build. I will be following along. 🤙🏻

Love the boat!! Now build another!! Have not missed an episode

I can’t discredit anything you’ve done with the console other than putting a top over it! 🎣

The boat is looking good. Great choice on the 16 in.

The 16 looks awesome, if I would’ve had the vertical room, I think that’s what I would’ve done, I had to go 2 12” screens but your layout is perfect! You’re gonna have a fishing machine when you’re done sir! Great job! 🤘🏼

Sweet, you found your Simrad! 👍

Looks great,nice and simple.

Won’t be long now! Can’t wait to hear that Merc!!

Layout look great, very efficient use of space, great looking unit, really excited to see it finished, getting close now... Next is the boat stuffed with bait@@!!

i have watched this series since you started. All I can say is "WOW WHAT A NICE BOAT." Hope you get that baby on the water real soon. I have a Lowrance HDS7 Gen 3 and recently updated to a Totalscan transducer. I have done one test of the Log Sonar feature for creating structure maps and it looks promising for getting an overlay of what the bottom looks like especially on artificial reefs and possibly ledges along the shipping channels in the Tampa Bay Area to see where the actual debris is located. Once you create the maps you can save them to an SD card and then anytime you travel over an area you have scanned it will automatically display the bottom structure as an overlay on your chart. You can even look at the chart while the boat is out of the water and see the overlay and even add waypoints if desired. I think???? only Lowrance and Simrad???? have this feature. Here is a link to a really SMART guy that has the technique down pat. One thing that is important is selecting the correct file type when saving the logged files, ie. either a SL3 for the newer units or the SL2 for the older units like mine. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-BgAZoyntbLU.html Just something you might want to try if your unit has that capability. Tight Lines to you on your new fishing adventures. John

Mike, love the build and have been following it on IG too. I love the big screen but redundancy if you’re going to the Bahamas is always comforting. Suppose you could always get a handheld for backup

Man Capt. Mike.... could you get the dingleberry off the screen of that beautiful and massive Simrad??? My OCD is killing me. Is it styrofoam? Is it fiberglass shavings? IS IT A SCRATCH on the new screen??? LoL. Love the new build and you taking us on the journey. Thanks!

Love it mike! I’ve enjoyed watching from the beginning of the build. We would really enjoy traveling down your way and have you take out a couple from Midwestern farm country.

Excited to see the final product

The Simrad is sick Cap!

wish we could this type of boat in Australia, great series , keep these vids coming

Awesome vid, finally shes come together

Cool boat can't wait for the finished product great job

Awesome looking electronics!! The installer was going to town on that chewing gum!!

Love this series. Looking forward to see the finished rig

Csnt wait to see the new boat in the water, she's looking great so far, put me in for the goodies so I can show my support up here in the Crystal River, Fl. area

Boat is looking good! Need the hoodie it’s been a little cold this winter in Tampa.

That’s just beautiful

ONE & DONE!!! Also your boat is sick. When the bait well was getting filled up int he intro, I was hoping it was gonna be the first test drive tease.

Nice,looking forward to the transducer install 🇧🇧👍🏻

Love the videos learning very much from them thanks

Your editing is killer

Clean console is the best. Looking foward to seeing the phone charger install.

Enjoyed the new intro...i thought the installer would have put some sealer around the Simrad unit

That's how its done.. now u can rest assured..

Love it but!...I’ve love redundancy man. But that console is probably big enough for a 9” under it lol if you ever change your mind. Congrats man and please hurry up haha!

Great Video, Boat's looking great, Can't wait to see it in the water..

Its coming out very nice

Great choice I love simard

I would not change anything with the layout, but would put in a Garmin unit. Not saying Garmin is better. Just been using a Garmin for about 4 years now. Once you learn the menus and all the feature it's hard to change to a different manufacturer. Also I do really like the Garmin Quickdraw. I think the next thing is to match your VHF radio DSC with your NAV system. Where are you going to locate your GPS antenna? Think about what might change if you add a T-top later.

Yea badass

You should get a small mercury vessel view as backup and keep your engine data up on it all the time. they also work as a backup gps in a pinch.

love the boat

Boat looks awesome can’t wait for fishing vids🔥🔥🔥

You can put a merc engine interface gauge for redundancy. That would give you engine info and control and backup fuel and battery info.

Looks sweet! Definitely need to pick up a cmor chip! Digging the hoodie

Wow 16in Simrad! I went with Raymarine and it's been a great unit but I do wonder if I should of went with simrad nice choice Capt.

Looks Awesome.

I have a smaller version off the Simrad these are nice units!

Looks great!

Needs a T top

congrats ! is a dream boat , enjoy it !

I own Simrad on one boat and Raymarine on the other. Simrad has very rudimentary waypoint management while Raymarine has outstanding waypoint management. Key features that Simrad is missing: 1) waypoint grouping 2) ability to turn on or off waypoint names for a group 3) different size waypoint icons (fish icons are tiny) 4) ability to bulk edit a group of waypoints 5) ability to filter waypoints by a string and then batch edit the filtered group The lack of these features makes the Simrad unusable for most fishermen and cruisers. I do not have a dog in this hunt other than making people aware of the shortcomings of Simrad.

Looking great, please post a updated video of the wiring.

Cellphone charger needs inside the console door its where i keep a bank of them for mine and anyone on the boat.Also you can do a gopro battery charge bank and a rack for the drone .

Yo what up mike? Badass simrad brother!

Great looking hoodie

Looks cool...Tight lines 😎

Love the series, been watching since episode 1 dropped. Radio for tunes, vf radio for communication, t-top and she will be ready. Are you looking to have any below water exterior lighting?