Electronics on boats, good Lord, do some reading and you quickly learn that it seems like three out of four vendors have one thing in common. It’s not that surprising on one hand and on the other it’s just kind of tough to manage. New features/units released nearly every year and they all (again except one) seem to cease support for the same about three years later….
For folks that like to hang on to hard earned expensive stuff, the choice becomes kind of easy. Catch? Sure, its boating, there’s always a catch. The one company that doesn’t do the above is typically the most expensive AND has the reputation for being the LEAST user friendly, but miraculously stand behind their products. The original owners equipped our boat for offshore cruising, but 15 years later some of the stuff just isn’t working (backup depth gauges, flybridge console). So, we are updating various components to keep that vision of strong redundancy needed for safe offshore cruising. Fortunately, they really have updated their user interface, so even we (newbies) can learn how to use it…. with enough studying…
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