HighnDry wrote on Jul 31^st, 2018 at 2:34am:

Need ideas and photos of anyone who has (successfully) mounted a transducer out side of the hull. I have the suction cups but the transducer gets tweaked from the water current or just falls off.....I can't shoot through the hull as I believe the northwinds has a foam core...

H&D
It is true that a transducer does not shoot through foam care well at all but you can go around it.  NorthStar canoes have a cut off diamond shaped foam core in the floor of the canoe.  I have a NorthStar Polaris with the same floor as the Northwind and I mount the transducer behind the back seat just off of the foam core.  Works well. I use plumbers putty and it takes me about 10 minutes to switch it from one canoe to another. It sticks well enough that it has never fallen off in many trips to Canada and back but it is easy to remove to put in another canoe.
MP