WHAT KIND OF ELECTRONICS???

[FELLOW-SHIP]

HA GUYS WHAT KIND OF INSTRUMENTS DID YOU PUT ON YOUR BOATS?
I BOUGHT A FURUNO 600 L DEPTH FINDER WITH THE THROUGH THE HULL TRANSDUCER WITH THE TEMP/MPG READING, A RAYMARINE 45 VHF AND TOMORROW I AM GOING TO PICK UP A GARMIN 182 GPS. THEY WILL ALL FIT IN THAT ALUMINUM ELECTRONIC BOX ON THE LEFT SIDE ON THE CENTER CONSOL.
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[Trayder]

I went with the Furuno stuff. On the "other" boat I installed the GP1650DF with the sounder along with another GP35 and an open aray radar, (forgot the model). I really like the GP1650DF so I am going to put that and a small Icom VHF in the 20.

I will be installing a full Furuno Navnet System on a friends new Contender 27 Cuddy this and next weekend. I will photo document the process. He held back no stops on this one so the set up should be very nice. 3 displays, open aray radar nework sounder and GPS/ Plotter. With another display for Lat/long or speed/water temp.

Should be interesting

[Scott]

Hey Jason

Have you tried to run the NAVnet yet???

I know we talked about it and I looked...Its a great little unit for a smaller boat ...but ....
A little difficult to operate.....there is a thread over on the hull truth and its getting kicked around a little. I think CME is selling the 1722C for $3,200 Color screen/ plotter/GPS(not differential however need to get a GPS 36 for that to happen) and a 600 watt fishfinder / 18" 2kw dome. Its a very nice unit ... but when the guy in the store couldnt figure it out.... well that was a problem...the menus did not flow easily (from my perspective)....

I would guess it gets easier to use once familiar with it but it just brought back memories of the early Loran C units....

Tell me your experience with it cause I really liked it!! just dont want to have to go to a book every time to figure something out.

[ April 18, 2002, 05:07 PM: Message edited by: Scott ]

[capesams]

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

[hermco]

Steve,
Does the plexi water tank do backup as an aquarium?

d.h.

[capesams]

It's for my ,lets just say JUICE, for when my elect.s go south. [img]images/icons/wink.gif[/img]

[capesams]

scott:

Go to the hull truth boating & fishing forum/ punch in electronics/go to:electronics
choice your opinion.

[hermco]

Have any of you guys heard of a compass?Rumor has it it you have one and a chart of the navigatable waters you can get to where you want to go.Hve used dead reconing with great success many times including when the Northwest channel ight in the Bahamas was knocked down and still made it to Nassau Harbour 170 nm. from Fort Lauderdale.Is a great invention/piece of nav gear.
d.h.

[Trayder]

Compass? Huh? Just kidding. On the other boat I had one of those KVH Azimuth Digital jobies mounted on the top of the console instead of a standard magnetic compass. Man that was the stupidest thing I have ever done!!!! It was back for repair twice in 1 year and when I "awoke" the boat this year it was all messed up again. Missing digits and the whole thing. I replaced it with a Richie ??5000 and have to say that the Richie is the best darn, and most bueatiful, piece of nav equip on the boat!!

One thing to note.....CRT Radars have magnets!!! It took a while to compensate the compass for the radar's added skew.

You ever notice there is NO such thing as an easy project. [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]

[Scott]

Why use a compass ... Its much easier to get lost using these plotter GPS things [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img] [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]

Steve I know [img]images/icons/confused.gif[/img] ....and I do have a problem with depending on ONE screen for all my navigation aids....at first I was thinking Furuno 1850 DF and I was concerned about losing one or the other (GPS or Fishfinder) NAVnet adds the radar on top of that.....The price is teasing me !! I think I would have to spend another 1,200 to 1,600 to get a similar system in separates.....and the other issue is that I'm already a Furuno fan...cept the radio….. I like the ICOM 402 [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]

It wasnt his fault but the fact that the guy at CME was having trouble just going screen to screen and changing background colors didnt do too much for me..what happens when you really need to use it.....That being said I hear the Garmin 2006 is a nice machine...