[jrd22]

I have had only mast mounted radars and generally feel that this is the best location. Having said that I have an issue with mine that came up after installing a furling unit on our staysail stay. I now get an intermittent echo (quite often a double) directly off the bow which is disconcerting and a major distraction to say the least. Our radar is mounted at the first spreaders, well below where the staysail furling attaches to the mast. I did not have this echo with just the headsail furling unit. Anyone else have this problem?

Main- amazing resolution with your Garmin on the plotter. I'm thinking of adding a second radar on a pole and running it to the 3210 in the cockpit, hoping that the offset pole will eliminate the echo off the bow. What do you think?

I'm sure I am not the only one that has a narrow rip rap lined channel (app. 50') leading into my marina. With my mast mounted radar, set on the lowest scale, the cone overlaps both sides of the channel by about 50% rendering the image all but useless, except you can kind of guess at the middle. Our radar is about 18'-20' up. On our power boat the radar is app. 10' off the water and we can see the channel clearly (same Furuno 4KW units). I guess like everything else radar mounting is a compromise.