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Magellan Triton GPS
OK, While the wife was shopping this afternoon, I came across the
Magellan Tritons, and wondered what they do and if anyone has had much experience with them. I like the idea that they are waterproof, but am wondering if I actually have a need for one. http://www.gpsmaniac.com/2009/04/mag...and-then-some/ |
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Tim wrote:
OK, While the wife was shopping this afternoon, I came across the Magellan Tritons, and wondered what they do and if anyone has had much experience with them. I like the idea that they are waterproof, but am wondering if I actually have a need for one. http://www.gpsmaniac.com/2009/04/mag...and-then-some/ If you want to mark spots on the water to visit later they are great. There are invaluable for ocean excursions. I'm a Garmin fan myself. I like their features and their service. |
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"Tim" wrote in message ... OK, While the wife was shopping this afternoon, I came across the Magellan Tritons, and wondered what they do and if anyone has had much experience with them. I like the idea that they are waterproof, but am wondering if I actually have a need for one. http://www.gpsmaniac.com/2009/04/mag...and-then-some/ for the boat I would get a chart plotter. Not Garmin. Garmin's are very good, but they are extremely proud of their charts. Maybe 3x the costs of Navionic's etc. Depending where you boat. I think they are almost a requirement for boating. Paper charts are great, and I have them for all the places I boat, but the plotter has phone numbers for the marina's, etc. and is easy in a smaller boat to plot your courses as does not require a large flat surface to lay out the paper charts. You can get plotters pretty cheap these days. Want a decent plotter, but older, look at used and those updating their electronics. I have a Garmin GPSmap 162 on my boat and am replacing it with a new combo unit. It may sell for $50 realistically these days. Black and white,and will take Garmin charts, but is to slow with the really good detail charts, but fine with the roads and recs CD charts. |
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On Mar 23, 12:27*pm, "CalifBill" wrote:
"Tim" wrote in message ... OK, *While the wife was shopping this afternoon, I came across the Magellan Tritons, and wondered what they do and if anyone has had much experience with *them. I like the idea that they are waterproof, but am wondering if I actually have a need for one. http://www.gpsmaniac.com/2009/04/mag...ver-the-basics... for the boat I would get a chart plotter. *Not Garmin. *Garmin's are very good, but they are extremely proud of their charts. *Maybe 3x the costs of Navionic's etc. *Depending where you boat. *I think they are almost a requirement for boating. *Paper charts are great, and I have them for all the places I boat, but the plotter has phone numbers for the marina's, etc. and is easy in a smaller boat to plot your courses as does not require a large flat surface to lay out the paper charts. You can get plotters pretty cheap these days. *Want a decent plotter, but older, look at used and those updating their electronics. I have a Garmin GPSmap 162 on my boat and am replacing it with a new combo unit. *It may sell for $50 realistically these days. *Black and white,and will take Garmin charts, but is to slow with the really good detail charts, but fine with the roads and recs CD charts. Oh boy. More stuff to investigate. Thanks Bill! |
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On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 13:33:00 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote: On Mar 23, 12:27*pm, "CalifBill" wrote: "Tim" wrote in message ... OK, *While the wife was shopping this afternoon, I came across the Magellan Tritons, and wondered what they do and if anyone has had much experience with *them. I like the idea that they are waterproof, but am wondering if I actually have a need for one. http://www.gpsmaniac.com/2009/04/mag...ver-the-basics... for the boat I would get a chart plotter. *Not Garmin. *Garmin's are very good, but they are extremely proud of their charts. *Maybe 3x the costs of Navionic's etc. *Depending where you boat. *I think they are almost a requirement for boating. *Paper charts are great, and I have them for all the places I boat, but the plotter has phone numbers for the marina's, etc. and is easy in a smaller boat to plot your courses as does not require a large flat surface to lay out the paper charts. You can get plotters pretty cheap these days. *Want a decent plotter, but older, look at used and those updating their electronics. I have a Garmin GPSmap 162 on my boat and am replacing it with a new combo unit. *It may sell for $50 realistically these days. *Black and white,and will take Garmin charts, but is to slow with the really good detail charts, but fine with the roads and recs CD charts. Oh boy. More stuff to investigate. Thanks Bill! Bill makes a good point regarding the price of electronic charts. We use 2 kinds of electronic charts on the trawler: BSB charts in Maptech format which are essentially free, and work on any PC based charting software; and CMAP-NT chart chips which work in our Furuno plotter and many others. The CMAP chips are not free but they are reasonably priced. All of the CMAP charts that we've used on 2,000 nautical miles of our current Caribbean cruise are contained on two chips, each costing abot $200, and each containing the equivalent of hundreds of paper charts. The inland river charts for the US are available from the Corps of Engineers for free in something called S57 format. There is good, free charting software available for S57 format called OpenCPN. Even if you don't want to carry a laptop on the boat, PC based charting makes a good planning tool and is great winter entertainment. More than one of our cruises has started out that way. http://www.agc.army.mil/echarts/inlandnav/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/opencpn/ |
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On Mar 23, 4:28*pm, Wayne.B wrote:
On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 13:33:00 -0700 (PDT), Tim wrote: On Mar 23, 12:27*pm, "CalifBill" wrote: "Tim" wrote in message .... OK, *While the wife was shopping this afternoon, I came across the Magellan Tritons, and wondered what they do and if anyone has had much experience with *them. I like the idea that they are waterproof, but am wondering if I actually have a need for one. http://www.gpsmaniac.com/2009/04/mag...ver-the-basics.... for the boat I would get a chart plotter. *Not Garmin. *Garmin's are very good, but they are extremely proud of their charts. *Maybe 3x the costs of Navionic's etc. *Depending where you boat. *I think they are almost a requirement for boating. *Paper charts are great, and I have them for all the places I boat, but the plotter has phone numbers for the marina's, etc. and is easy in a smaller boat to plot your courses as does not require a large flat surface to lay out the paper charts. You can get plotters pretty cheap these days. *Want a decent plotter, but older, look at used and those updating their electronics. I have a Garmin GPSmap 162 on my boat and am replacing it with a new combo unit. *It may sell for $50 realistically these days. *Black and white,and will take Garmin charts, but is to slow with the really good detail charts, but fine with the roads and recs CD charts. Oh boy. More stuff to investigate. Thanks Bill! Bill makes a good point regarding the price of electronic charts. *We use 2 kinds of electronic charts on the trawler: *BSB charts in Maptech format which are essentially free, and work on any PC based charting software; and CMAP-NT chart chips which work in our Furuno plotter and many others. *The CMAP chips are not free but they are reasonably priced. *All of the CMAP charts that we've used on 2,000 nautical miles of our current Caribbean cruise are contained on two chips, each costing abot $200, and each containing the equivalent of hundreds of paper charts. The inland river charts for the US are available from the Corps of Engineers for free in something called S57 format. *There is good, free charting software available for S57 format called OpenCPN. *Even if you don't want to carry a laptop on the boat, PC based charting makes a good planning tool and is great winter entertainment. *More than one of our cruises has started out that way. http://www.agc.army.mil/echarts/inlandnav/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/opencpn/- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Thanks Wayne. I'd have to look but the A.C.E. charts; I think were suggested by J. in another thread. But I AM taking all this in. Now, about that tin can mounted on a stick..... ?;^ ) |
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