On Thu, 25 Dec 2003 21:56:03 +0000, Harry Krause wrote:

I'm now prowling for a deal on a radar set for Yo Ho. I was going to go with a
Furuno 1712 LCD, but there's been a price cut on the 1731 Mark III, and that's
a CRT set. To my eyes, the CRT sets seem to resolve smaller targets better.
But the move definitely is towards LCD radar, especially LCDs with
chartplotters built-in. I still prefer separates, though.

If you look at this photo:

http://f1.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/hak...s+in+Cabin.jpg

you can see that to the right of the chartplotter cover there's a space for a
radar. Though a friend says to pull the Furuno fishfinder off the cabin roof
(to the left of the pilothouse wheel), put *it* in the dash and stuck the
radar screen up where the fishfinder was.

I certainly have time to think about it.


Harry, if you check out those rag-boters over at rec.boats.cruising, I've
started several threads on radar. I need one to go to the West Coast this summer
(so: New Engine, New Genoa, New paint, New windows, and New radar - geez, maybe
I should do a Krouse and buy a new boat!)

I'm leaning towards Furuno (1722 if I can afford it, or else the 1623)
because 90% of the commercial boats around here have them, and I have the GP31
GPS and like it's ruggedness (also, might as well be "coordinated"). I'm also
checking out JRC - apparently they used to make the radars for Raytheon until
Raytheon "became" Raymarine.

I also like "separate" units - although my chartplotter will be a program on
my laptop - I still prefer papar charts. One thing the Furuno has (others may as
well, but Furuno mentioned it): it displays the data it gets from the GPS while
in "standby". Sounds like a Good Thing...

Lloyd Sumpter
"Far Cove" Catalina 36 - 20yrs old, getting a "Cher"