Don White wrote:
"HK" wrote in message
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Bit frustrating trying to find the "right" GPS Chartplotter for a new
boat.

We've been looking for a larger screen plotter, 6 or 7" diagonal, with the
possibility of adding on a sonar/fishfinder, between $600 and $1000.

Almost everything we have looked at has too many damned features. We're
pretty sure we don't want to hook up a video camera or DVD player to it!

Anyway, I kind of like the combo units from Lowrance and Standard Horizon.
Lowrance has a unit with a built in 30-gig hard drive and two drawers for
chips. I wonder about the efficacy of a hard drive on the center console
of a small boat out there in the ocean.

I don't much like the new Garmin units.

In case we go for separates, any recommendations for a color screen
fishfinder? It doesn't have to have a screen nearly as large as the
plotter.


Good luck!
I'm struggling on what model handheld GPS I should buy to replace my old,
but working perfectly, Magellan 315
I think the Garmin GPSMAP 60 CXS has a good rep...but the Garmin GPSMAP
76CXS also looks interesting.
http://ca.binnacle.com/index.php?cPath=12_286




I wish these makers would concentrate on the important features. I have
a nice cellphone, but it has a camera built-in, a camera I used once, I
think, on my trip to Hawaii, and just as a gag. More volume on the
earpiece part would have been more valuable.