The ST60 masthead xducer and cable can be bought separately. There are also 
measurements that can beamed from the display end of the cable which will give 
you some idea of what's going on. I'm at the yacht club having dinner and will 
look them out later for you. 

Rich Knowles
Indigo. LF38
Halifax

On 2013-04-14, at 18:20, Colin Kilgour <[email protected]> wrote:

Fred, Rich and anyone else who has got their Raymarine ticket...

My Raymarine (ST60) wind transducer began dying a slow death after a 
particularly breezy and rainy passage in the fall of 2011.  By the fall of 
2012, it was pretty much dead and while there was power at the display, there 
was no data coming from the masthead.  

When a crewman who loves to go aloft finally got up to the masthead a few weeks 
ago, the transducer was loose and darn near fell into his hand.  He cleaned up 
all the contacts and re-attached the transducer, but no joy was to be had.  
(Occassionally, the wind speed would read "0.0" instead of "-.-" but that's it.

My hypothesis is that the transducer worked itself loose in the storm and a mix 
of salty and fresh water has been pouring into the cable ever since and it has 
now failed.  (And yes, I've checked all the connections from the base of the 
mast back to the helm).

Now, to replace the cable, do I need a Seatalk cable? or can I use something 
more standard?  Also, do I have to replace the transducer?  Raymarine ships the 
transducers with cable attached, so I'm wondering if there's some magic to that.

Thoughts welcome... 

Cheers,
Colin
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