you know you are talking about Gougers um I mean Gagnon's right?!?!?! They don't care about squat unless you are spending thousands there yearly. Mike is the ONLY nice person there and he's almost never out front!
you can always make almost any unit portable (somewhat). Yes; that's a battery from an Acura in the crate so I don't worry at all over a weekend.
In the winter take the trasnducer off the stick and use a swimming noodle in it's place with tape and zip ties to keep it facing down.