Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Fri, 15 Jun 2007 08:15:18 -0400, HK wrote:

Anyone publishing these?

As in, $1000 chartplotters/fishfinders, six new units tested.

That sort of stuff.

I'm surprised I didn't comment on this. Here's my take.

1 - Anything you buy today will be automatically obselete tomorrow.

2 - Instead of comparision, figure out what features are important
then look at different units to see if any match your criteria. It's
not like there are a ton of manufacturers out there.

3 - Once you find that match, it's just a question of price.

Recently, I've been in the market for a combo unit - radar/gps, etc
and have looked at quite a few. I'm kind of constrained to units that
use the Navionics package in the CF card format - I have a lot of
money invested in Navionics Gold and Platinum CF cards and I don't
want to lose that investment.

There isn't a lot of choice.





It's not easy to find stores that offer a decent selection. We have
three or four chains active in this area, plus a couple of indys.

I think I am going to recommend a lowrance GPS/Plotter and a separate
Lowrance fishfinder. I always like the ergonomics of the Lowrance stuff.
The new Lowrance stuff looks very nice to me.