Nanticoke Maritime LLC developed and manufactures TheOriginal Patented SternMate. Our transducer mounting plate system is the perfect fish-finder transducer mounting bracket accessory built to compliment your boat and electronic sonar depth-seeking equipment. SternMate mounting system is uniquely designed for ease of mounting and for simple, effective "optimum signaladjustments"of most any of the more popular fish-finder transducers...and without drilling any screw-holes whatsoever. You'll find that adjustments to your depth-finder transducer have never been easier or more effective. Afterall, conscientious boaters and fishermen unquestionably demand the best equipment available. Count on us to help you mount your transducer correctly with SternMate.
SternMate is engineered of the highest quality materials available for new installations or easy retrofit. Each SternMate kit comes with specially selected hardware, a uniquely formulated adhesive designed and packaged for SternMate and illustrated "easy-to-follow" DO-IT- YOURSELFinstallation instructions. No special tools or skills are required. Ask your dealer to install it for you.
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Easily install your fish-finder transducer on your aluminum or fiberglass boat hull - Adhesive transducer mounting plate installation - No screw-holes - No leaks
Lowrance "Skimmer" transducer shown for illustration purposes only
SternMate with Set-back Plate on Flat-bottomed Skiff
Mounting a transom-mounted transducer seems to come with multitudes of inherent issues. The web contains 10's of thousands of justified concerns and problems and we have experienced many, if not all, of them ourselves. Embarrassingly enough, we always placed the blame on the equipment. Properly adjusting a transducer to gain the "ultimate" signal is aggravating at best. Locating the perfect spot can be daunting, even with well-written instructions provided by its manufacturer. Drilling those screw-holes is unnerving to most and many just won't do it. Trepidation is far from unfounded. In fact, many boat owners fail to consider the consequences associated with drilling that first hole below the waterline. Sealed screw-holes or not, we do the best that we can because this is what we have had to work with. Leaks can go unnoticed and the intrusion of water can be devastating. Water weight, soggy flotation foam, delamination, stringer separation from freezing, and those proverbial "soft spots"...water is stealthy, deliberate and always causes damage. A 100% composite-built boat is just as vulnerable as the next. Screw-holes in aluminum boats are subject to leak also and repairs are generally difficult and unsightly. And what many fail to realize is that the liabilities your boat warranty and your boat insurance is so careful to outline are placed in serious jeopardy. We encourage you to become familiar with what is covered, and what is not, contained within your boat warranty and insurance policy and how it could pertain to aftermarket installation of equipment or alteration and modification of your boat hull as was orginally intended and equipped by the manufacturer.
Our electronics are important to us. We must have them. They are exciting, ever-changing, highly technical and the makers of them are the best in the world but, we still have a need to mount them correctly and effectively, allow the freedom to adjust them properly and to change our equipment while preserving the integrity of our boats. So, we developed a unique, well-planned system designed to solve the problem about how we mount our transducer equipment.
SternMate™ may also be used for:
Speedometer pitot tubes Water temperature sensors
Depth-seeking sonar (depth-finder) Electronic fish attractors
Easily change and remount your electronics to the "latest and greatest"
* optional additional Setback Plate avaialble
SternMate™ transducer mounting system can easily be installed on most all boats. Some of the types of boats that use transom-mounted transducers for fish-finders, depth-finders, sonar and fish locators are:
All-Purpose Fishing Boats Aluminum Fishing Boats Fish and Ski Bass Boats Bowriders Flat Boats Bass boats Center Console Closed Bow Runabouts
Welded Boats Center Console Closed Bow Runabouts Center Console Closed Bow Runabouts Cuddy Cabins Deck Boats Houseboats Dinghies
Electric Boats Multi-Hull Power Boats Catamarans Jet Boats Performance Boats Pontoon Boats Stern Drive boats Cruisers Skiffs I/O Inboard-Outboard
SternMate™ properly places your transducer rearward (aft) to take advantage of the natural rise and flow of the displaced slipstream as it exits beneath your boat.
Lowrance "Skimmer" transducer is shown for illustration and demonstration purposes only.
