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Don't know if this has been posted before, but I came across this on a
boat today - WAY cool. http://www.sirius.com/marineweather If you are a Sirius subscriber, it looks very interesting. And very real time although there wasn't a lot of "weather" to watch. The unit I saw this feature on was a Raymarine C120 system on a 33 Grady White Canyon center console. And it has everything from real time buoy monitoring, surface temp readouts for the area, wave reports, real time Nexrad - very impressive. What was really neat was you could put all four readouts (radar, sounder, GPS and WX) up on the display at the same time - that was nifty. Mix and match was interesting - radar/WX, GPS/WX and there is a way to overlay the displays but I didn't get around to playing with that. A tad expensive for the small boater, but to be honest, being the semi-geek I am, I could see spending the $4k to put an entire C70 system on my Ranger if only because I boat in the NE where things can change in a hurry. It would be nice to call up real time WX radar when things get snarky and overlay the WX radar on GPS. The Sirius isn't that expensive either all things considered - $800 for the receiver/translator and $30/month for the data. Considering the average boating season, six months, the $180 is well spent - to me anyway. By the way, I am very impressed with the Canyon 33 - this is one sweet CC, very comparable to my Contender Fisharound. only with more room for some reason even with similar configuration. |
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