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Old 06-07-2012, 06:06 AM
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Originally Posted by hugo View Post
... and i know i have a garmin color handheld GPS with the bluecharts in it and it has way better detail than my lowrance. if i had to do it again i think i might have looked closer at the $250 more expensive garmin units.
Yeah. I have a GPSMap 76 and a GPSMap 76C. All my routes and waypoints are in them or in my computer in .mps files. Unless I can figure out a way to put them in the Lowrance, I'll be navigating with the 76C until I can mark waypoints in the Lowrance while I'm on the spot.

I like Garmin's GPS technology and map software much better, but I think Lowrance is ahead of them on sonar technology. I was going to buy just the fishfinder, but the combo unit was only about $100 more, so I went for it.
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