I have been messing about with a laptop and an Ipaq 3670 with Fugawi along
with an old Magellan 3000 GPS. It works, but it is really clunky and then
there are all the cables that lie around.

I think that I want to buy some sort of integrating charting/GPS
combination. I have resisted this because of the high cost of the Garmin &
other charts.

Is there a solution that I could mount at the steering pedestal on a
sailboat that can use both purchased and free(enc) charts? This could be a
chart plotter, a PDA or even an addition to my existing older PDA.