Will the new Revo 13 transducer mount work for a Garmin 300C

I'm curious if anyone's got some been there done that experience using the new Revo 13 transducer port with non Lowrance transducers. It's a smallish hollow maybe geared only for Lowrance?

I mounted the transducer for a Huminbird 597ci HD DI combo fishfinder in the transducer pocket of my 2014 13' Revolution.  I'm sure it's a snap to mount a Lowrance transducer in the pocket.  You'd just stick the transducer in the transducer mount and rock and roll.  But I had to do some serious dinking around to adapt the transom mount from my Huminbird 597 to the vertical prongs of the bracket inside the transducer pocket.  An almost final picture of what I did is shown below. The block of plastic I added between the two vertical prongs was hitting the front of the transducer pocket, so I cut it off flush with the front of the vertical prongs.  However, I didn't take a picture of the final version of the mounting setup.



The part of the transducer pocket bracket which you screw a Lowrance transducer to doesn't fit a Huminbird transducer, so I jerked it out.  Then I cut a block of UHMW Polyethylene to fit between the two vertical prongs of the mounting bracket, and attached it to the vertical prongs with the bolt and two little metal clips which come with the transducer mount.  Then I cut off the upper half of the Huminbird transom mount and screwed the lower half of the transom mount to the block of plastic.  You may need to do some minor tweaking to adjust the position of your transducer so the bottom of the transducer is about 1/8 inch from the inside of the plate on the bottom of the transducer pocket, and the bottom of the transducer is parallel with the surface of the water.

The good news, after all the dinking around I had to do, is that the transducer works great in the transducer pocket, the pocket completely protects the transducer from damage, and I don't even need to think about the transducer.  It's just always there, nicely protected.  I could have purchased a 2013 Revolution for quite a bit less than I paid for my 2014 Revolution, but after considering the shortcomings and costs of the various options for mounting a transducer on the 2013 (through the hull, scupper mount, or next-to-the-kayak boom), I decided to pay the extra money and get a 2014, just in order to get the transducer pocket.  And I'm glad I did it.

I don't know if Hobie offers an adapter for Huminbird transducers.  I was eager to get the Revolution in the water, and didn't want to wait for transducer pocket parts to arrive, so I just adapted the Huminbird transom mount, as shown above.

Here is the Hobie, Humminbird transducer adapter P/N  84505901 "HUMMINBIRD ADAP KIT", $10 from your Hobie dealer.......it works as advertised in my PA-14

Here is the Hobie, Humminbird transducer adapter P/N  84505901 "HUMMINBIRD ADAP KIT", $10 from your Hobie dealer.......it works as advertised in my PA-14

lol well that seems much easier, I wonder if it only works for the PA.  http://www.sunrisemountainsports.com/store/84505901!205/Hobie+Fishfinder+Adapter+Kit+for+Hummingbird

-Rodney-

Dang!  I wish I had asked whether there is an adapter.  It would have been way easier than the modifications I did.

The Humminbird adapter kit should work on any Hobie that has the "Lowrance ready feature"......I am sure at the time, Sunrise Mt. Sports made up their ad, the PA-12 and PA-14 were the only Hobie's fitted with the new "transducer ready feature"......now, most Hobie's have the feature added to the hull.