Fairly new boat owner. I have a 1998 Bayliner Cierra 2855 off of New
Jersey. I am looking at the Navman series of units yet would like to hear
some general recommendations and thoughts regarding what I should be looing
at before plunking down lots of $$$

Thanks

Check Garmin, lowrance,Magellan, they all have webs......start with a basic
then upgrade......Lowrance has an emulator you can download on your puter
and test drive it........am looking to upgrade too.


Jordan wrote in message
...
Fairly new boat owner. I have a 1998 Bayliner Cierra 2855 off of New
Jersey. I am looking at the Navman series of units yet would like to hear
some general recommendations and thoughts regarding what I should be
looing
at before plunking down lots of $$$

Thanks

Look for some rich guy who has a Garmin 185 with that gleam in his eye
that shows he's just fallen in LOVE with that new COLOR chartplotter
at his fav marine electronics outfit. The Garmin 185 works great, but
isn't the unnecessary color screen he's ogling over. It will take 2
chart plugs at a time, which works great and switches them
automatically as you go from one zone into another.

We just came back from Florida taking delivery of a French-made Amel
Sharpi 41' ketch for a friend. I hooked the 185 to the power leads of
the propane gas controls, which were the handy ones and we bolted the
little antenna to the handrail for the trip home. The previous owner
had taken off his autopilot, so we had to steer from Titusville, FL to
Charleston, SC by hand watching the little rhumbline the Garmin 185
had plotted for us. Worked great the whole trip as we couldn't use
the sextant in the dense clouds above Jacksonville.....(c;

If you go anyplace using ANY GPS, please keep your course plotted
every hour on a real chart just in case the electronics fails leaving
you "out there"....

One of the monochrome LCD Garmins would make a great addition to your
new boat. They work great and if you add an autopilot you can plug
its NMEA 0185 data stream output straight into the autopilot and it
will steer the boat for you like a rock!

Larry, Third Mate Engineering
S/V "Claire's Navie".....formerly Xanareva out of San Francisco now in
Charleston, SC.



On Fri, 1 Aug 2003 11:25:48 -0400, "Jordan"
wrote:

Fairly new boat owner. I have a 1998 Bayliner Cierra 2855 off of New
Jersey. I am looking at the Navman series of units yet would like to hear
some general recommendations and thoughts regarding what I should be looing
at before plunking down lots of $$$

Thanks