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Since we have the freedom of speech, Here's my 2 cents worth. Furuno nav net systems are great on big boats where they have backups for nearly everything. When you have one system and no others, you have to ask yourself, " do I feel lucky" coming in at night in fog (nor not) over a nasty bar. At that point, the system decides to have a brain fart. oops. Hail mary's come to mind. I'm not saying they're not a great system. But I dont' like putting all of my eggs in one basket. At least with seperate units, one goes, you still have something left to get home on. The census is that furuno is best for radar. Then Garmin for GPS, for a fishfinder; garmin or furuno, or any others. I'm also not a big fan of color units as I do alot of night fishing and the color units are too bright and confusing to look at. . Hence monochrome is preferred. There you have it, for my situation in boating, this is what I have.
Furuno 1731 MKIII Radar 4Kw
Garmin 232 Chartplotter C-Chip - with backup furuno gps 36
Garmin 240 Blue
Icom VHF radio with handheld backup + cellphone
and a plexiglass water tank

Steve