NE Sailboat wrote:
A poster to a boat site I visit recommended that I get a Magellan
handheld GPS, not a Garmin.

He said the Magellan is better and that the mapping software is much
cheaper.

I really don't know hardly anything about Magellan or the Magellan
software.

Can one of you knowledgeable sailors fill me in..

Thanks

The top models from each of these manufacturers have little to choose
between them, however, when it comes to software, I would think Garmin has a
very strong lead, paticularly the Bluecharts versions, which are excellent.
As you are posting to a sailing newsgroup, I assume that is what you want.

Dennis.