On 10 maio, 11:21, "rec.boats" wrote:
I just heard today that the about to be released new 4000/5000 series
will only display g2 charts. If you have old mapsource or bluecharts
they will have to be upgraded. Very annoying that Garmin didi not
make the units backward compatible.

And the new Garmin 420 series only accepts the BlueChart G2 VISION SD
card, about 2 times the price of a regular BC, and for us here in
South America, it it almost unusable since do not have navigation
details of the majority of the coast besides it do have ANY tide
information as well.. By the way, the Navionics Gold Plus used on the
Raymarine Plotters is 10 times better for the same price ..

After having owned 12 Garmin's Gps since 1992, now I still have 3
Garmin Gps Plotters (G130, G76, G276C) all 3 now completely obsoletes
since do not have AIS support, and I pretend to change my Gps
provider for another brand ASAP.