Anyone upgraded their electronics lately?
Handymans342
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I am researching electronics and have narrowed it down to Garmin or Raymarine. Both have multi-function displays with Chirp technology. Both have 4KW radar, fish finder sonar with a thru hull bronze transducer and GPS. Both are same price with 12 inch screens. I am dealing with one store who will take my old Furuno equipment in trade for Garmin. Thats the only reason Garmin prices the same as Raymarine.
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My choiuce would be: Raymarine E95 GPS unit and Raymarine HD Color radar dome. The E95 is both touch screen and rotary knob controlled. The Raymarine is Bluetooth and with the Ray app you can "sling" your charts and GPS routes to other devices and create remote gps screens. I could watch the plotted route on the E95 main unit and the Admiral could keep an eye on it on her tablet, lap top whatever.
The year before I had a new Garmin 741 so called glonsass super high speed, IMO it was primitive compared to the Raymarine. the new Raymarine HD color radar is IMO way superior to the Garmin radar units.
And I believe most of the Raymarine product is made in the U.S.A. - at least it's an American company!
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