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Which snowbird navigational system?
After many years of cruising from Maine to Grenada with paper charts
and our trusty handheld Magellan 5000DX, it's time to enter the electronic age. While I do have a good nav station down below; having access to data in cockpit, which at times can be wet, is of primary importance. We still intend to cruise from Maine to the Bahamas, but now we will be following the magenta line. I'd like to hear some recommendations for either a cockpit chart plotter, or a combo using my laptop below and some sort of handheld above. Keeping in mind our cruising areas, and our limited fixed income: If a chart plotter/GPS, which one? Or does a GPS attachment to the laptop, some navigation software, and some sort of handheld seems to make more sense? If so, what equipment, what software? For you snowbirds with sailboats out there, what is your set up? |
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