Don White wrote:
"HK" wrote in message
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Bit frustrating trying to find the "right" GPS Chartplotter for a new
boat.

We've been looking for a larger screen plotter, 6 or 7" diagonal, with the
possibility of adding on a sonar/fishfinder, between $600 and $1000.

Almost everything we have looked at has too many damned features. We're
pretty sure we don't want to hook up a video camera or DVD player to it!

Anyway, I kind of like the combo units from Lowrance and Standard Horizon.
Lowrance has a unit with a built in 30-gig hard drive and two drawers for
chips. I wonder about the efficacy of a hard drive on the center console
of a small boat out there in the ocean.

I don't much like the new Garmin units.

In case we go for separates, any recommendations for a color screen
fishfinder? It doesn't have to have a screen nearly as large as the
plotter.


Good luck!
I'm struggling on what model handheld GPS I should buy to replace my old,
but working perfectly, Magellan 315
I think the Garmin GPSMAP 60 CXS has a good rep...but the Garmin GPSMAP
76CXS also looks interesting.
http://ca.binnacle.com/index.php?cPath=12_286



The Garmin GPSMAP 76CSx is a great unit from a company that stands
behind their products. I've never heard of, or seen, the 60CXS. At
least you are actually shopping. Your buddy Harry seems to be suffering
from his narcissism again.

Dan