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Originally Posted by Raider Ronnie
I don't like Navionics in my Simrad screens.
I kept my old Garmin 2010C aa a backup plotter and even though I have 2 new 12 inch Simrad screens, I still use the Garmin every day as my plotter unless I'm on auto pilot navigating to a waypoint.
C-map in my Garmin much better than Navionics !
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+1 what Ronnie said - seems like no matter what brand it is, if it's not a Garmin the plotter just isn't as easy to use, to the point where an old Garmin handheld can trump someone else's latest & greatest 12 inch screen when it comes to how well you are able to navigate with it.
For instance when trying to anchor on just the right spot we've used my Garmin 176 black/white handheld over a fairly new big Lowrance just for that reason - we can't figure out the drift and how far we are exactly from the numbers as well w/ the Lowrance (which is a matter of hundreds of feet in this case, you gotta run up drift ~300 feet and get the anchor down to drift back to where you want the boat to be). With the old Garmin it's simple to measure up the scope by moving the curser and navigate directly to a spot you plotted a certain distance away.
Who's charts are better is another question, but I've never felt like I needed more than the bluecharts from 10 years ago on a small black & white screen for flawless performance navigating.
Jon
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