New boat (32ft power) and I can't believe how many electronics choices
are out there. I want GPS, chartplotter, radar, fishfinder. I care
most about chartplotter. Won't use radar or fishfinder often (but
enough that I need it). I see three choices -

Furuno Navnet - all one unit, expensive, but charts don't look as nice
to me (fewer colors?). Cmap/NT (I guess NT+ compatible but maybe not
all features?)

Raymarine C series - all one unit, expensive, new unit - maybe not as
reliable as Furuno? Navionics Gold looks great.

Garmin 188C with a Furuno radar - less expensive, no radar overlay,
smaller screen, Blue Chart also looks great.

I think Furuno Navnet would be an easy choice if the chartplotter
didn't seem a little behind (especially at the price). Should I wait?

Bob

(At-Sea) wrote in message om...

Bob:

I identify and sympathize with the choices you face and the decisions.
I went thru same process last year, viewing almost all GPS plotters,
some with radar overlays and so forth, re-viewing and pondering for
more than two weeks, before selecting Furuno 1933C. C Map NT may not
be the very best, but the charts work and tell you enough to navigate
safely. The other units are also good -- no matter your final choice,
you can't go bad.

(At-Sea) wrote in message om...
New boat (32ft power) and I can't believe how many electronics choices
are out there. I want GPS, chartplotter, radar, fishfinder. I care
most about chartplotter. Won't use radar or fishfinder often (but
enough that I need it). I see three choices -

Furuno Navnet - all one unit, expensive, but charts don't look as nice
to me (fewer colors?). Cmap/NT (I guess NT+ compatible but maybe not
all features?)

Raymarine C series - all one unit, expensive, new unit - maybe not as
reliable as Furuno? Navionics Gold looks great.

Garmin 188C with a Furuno radar - less expensive, no radar overlay,
smaller screen, Blue Chart also looks great.

I think Furuno Navnet would be an easy choice if the chartplotter
didn't seem a little behind (especially at the price). Should I wait?

Bob

Bob,

I recently collected some links to reviews of these various products,
may be they can be of some help to you.

http://www.panbo.com/yae/archives/000372.html
http://www.panbo.com/yae/archives/000381.html
http://www.panbo.com/yae/archives/000387.html
http://www.panbo.com/yae/archives/000389.html

Yme