TI showing its full potential

Had a fellow Hobie Fishing Team member do a walk thru on my TI this past weekend at a Demo event. Any other recommendations would be greatly appreciated.

https://youtu.be/m0ewSNHw85E

Way to noisy for me. If you have a very large fish to land, how do you fold in an ama? I don't like the placement of the fish finder. Going to get a lot of water blasts out there on the haka plus it's to far away to view, don't like that transducer set up. Where do they store the gas can, cooler, etc., over the hakas? Thing must weigh a ton?
Be curious in overall performance after a rough day on the water, in action would speak volumes and how you get it to the beach and off, setup, etc.. Sometimes it's better to keep it as simple as possible.

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Mark
Tandem Island- 2013
2 - Sports - 2014

Here is a little video on the action on the TI. We sometimes fish over 10 miles offshore. 90%of the time it's a beach launch. This type of set up is not for eveyone. I can cover over 30 miles in one day and carry around 150 pounds of fish if need too. The transducer arm is design to stow away during beach landing. Hobie still hasn't come out with something that works for me. So I have to improvise for now.

https://youtu.be/E2KD4hbHdFI

Good shot of you launching, taking some nice break. I take it you put everything together on the beach, since you don't have any wheels in place going out. How long does it take you to set up? I can't believe it was that easy to pull that beast out into the water??? I leave my heavy duty scupper cart in place on launch.

For Pargo you don't need to break down an ama. Looks like your motor set up works okay, I would be a bit nervous about that placement right behind the aka arm, could end up damaging the aka or motor mount with no easy release in place. I bet the mount takes a lot of pressure shots at time. I see you don't engage the aka brace because it's in your way for tilting the motor up. Big reason I mounted mine in the rear of the kayak behind the rear seat all the way just in front of the rear hatch. At least you have a long enough shaft to not kick up any water onto the rear passenger.

Your taking a lot of shots of water to the fish finder in that video. You will blow it out in no time. A taylor made cover will help tremendously thru rough water. I place my fish finder with railblaza mounts to the small cup holder in the rear. Run my ducer thru one of the rear scupper holes, since my Hobie TI is a non Lowrance ready model. Which I take yours is not also since you go thru such an elaborate set up.

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Mark
Tandem Island- 2013
2 - Sports - 2014