About Wayne Richey

Wayne Richey is the Warranty and Operations Manager for Navico Canada (parent company of Lowrance, Simrad, and B&G) and a marine electronics contributor for Island Fisherman Magazine. Operating marine sonar and echo sounders since the early 1980s, Wayne provides technical field guidance on coastal boat rigging, marine radar setup, and live sonar transducer tuning. His writing demystifies complex electronic systems, focusing on interpreting raw sonar arches versus Fish ID icons, radar target separation for finding feeding marine birds, and calibrating digital chartplotters for coastal Pacific Northwest waters.