T&T: Furuno or Raymarine

[Alec McLocklin (amclockl)]

 If your looking for the most affordable and comprehensive system, then
Garmin provides this.  They have a very large commercial market of GPS
systems that offsets the development and feature enhancements than the
other players.


Alec


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.com] On Behalf Of Randy Pickelmann
Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2007 8:21 AM
To: trawlers-and-trawlering@lists.samurai.com
Subject: T&T: Furuno or Raymarine

David,
Here is an answer guaranteed to confuse.  We installed a Raymarine C120
a year ago and we love it.  It worked well all last year as we traveled
up the ICW.
We use radar and the chart plotter, no depth.  My son bought a new flats
fishing boat this year and based on my satisfaction with the C120, he
installed a Raymarine fishfinder.  It was not cheap...$600  or so.  It
was a bust.  The first unit was all but impossible to see in the
sunlight.  (Seems that should be a requirement for a unit intended to go
on a small center-console boat!)  After the thing clouded up with
condensation, WM changed it out and the second one did the same thing.
WM upgraded it to a more expensive unit which was only marginally better
in the sunlight.  Within thirty days it was clouding up with
condensation and WM swapped it out, at no cost, for a more expensive
Garmin fishfinder/chartplotter.  So far, so good.
By the way, for you nay-sayers, this speaks volumes about WM, in my
book.
Regards,
Randy Pickelmann
hard aground in Clearwater
MORNING STAR
www.morningstar.talkspot.com
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