"Shortwave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On 6 Aug 2006 05:33:42 -0700, "Joey916" wrote:

Good thread. I'm equally curious as to others opinions as well. GPS for
small craft is hard to decide. I was looking for a model similar to
what Gary is looking for, but also, portable, versatile and the ability
to upgrade and add on features.

I'm seriously considering the Garmin GPSMAP 276. I'm hearing a lot of
good things and the versatility is a big plus. Not to hijack the
thread, I'd like to know if others have opinions on this product or
other like it.

Garmin's are good units, but they are a bear to just do something
simple like change from knots to mph for example. Six separate steps
to get to the right menu and even then, you have to have a degree in
interpretive English to understand what they are telling you to do.

Recently, I was doing some boat handling instruction and the owner had
a Garmin 276C. He asked me to set up the GPS for him and unlike my
Raymarine stuff which is intuitive and easy as hell to change and set
up, I had to use the book to get to the menus and set up the way he
asked.



I agree with the RayMarine recommendation. I've used Garmin, Furuno and
RayMarine systems and although all are all good, the RayMarine was the
easiest to learn and operate, for me.

Eisboch