Rattletrap --
Sounds like your new to boating on Winni .... Welcome !
From your first post, you are getting a 18' Pontoon - so no major concern (as you will have a shallow draft) - but in your last post you mention the boat is coming equipped with a Depth Finder.
Please be aware that the LAST piece of electronics of any value on a boat on Winni is a depth finder. We are a glacial lake.... rocks "Pop Up" out of nowhere and are in the most unexpected areas. Thus the markers.
By the time your Depth Finder alarm goes off you've already experienced the THUD of hitting that rock and are now back to 10-30 ft of water. This is true along shorelines as well.
You didn't mention it directly, but I don't want you to think that a depth finder will have ANY value --- other than amusement that you are in 180' (or whatever) of water or to watch how rapidly you go from 100' depth to 25' and back again i.e. the rocks
Again -- Welcome & safe boating
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