Re: Plotters / GPS
This topic shows up over and over again on the forum.
A couple of things to keep in mind.
personal or street plotters dont make good marine plotters for a variety of reasons... one being update speed. If you are traveling a road, or hiking, you dont need quick updates. If you are going 50 on a boat and want to use the GPS ... you need to know where you are now -- not where you were 1/4 mile back.
secondly screen size ... a road plotter only needs to know about road junctions... a marine plotter has a lot of information to tell you about whats a head ... you need a good size screen to see all that information
durability. Marine plotters can take some serious abuse. when you are in 4 foot waves slapping the hell out of your boat... you think your laptop is going to stay in one place and in one piece?
You will want a WAAS receiver... that is a drain on portable batteries and for WAAS to be useful you'll want a fixed antenna .. not a handheld
I personally love my Standard Horizon 170C with the bizer cmap nt chart... great combo for the lake
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