Danny – The advice Mike gives re: 740 is very good. Coincidently, I also happen to have one for sale.
Pete On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 8:16 AM, <cnc-list-requ...@cnc-list.com> wrote: From: "Hoyt, Mike" <mike.h...@impgroup.com> To: "cnc-list@cnc-list.com" <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> Cc: Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2015 12:34:49 +0000 Subject: Re: Stus-List Windows laptop for chartplotter? Danny Purchase Navionics Boating HD for your tablet while it is still available. It is supposed to be discontinued very soon and may have been discontinued already We have a Garmin GPSMAP 740 at the helm. It is extremely useful when going anywhere and on the size boat you are purchasing is almost a necessity. A tablet in the cockpit is not nearly so robust and very prone to breakage and power loss, especially in any sea condition We just returned from the Bras d’Ors Lakes in Cape Breton, NS. The total return delivery was approx. 170NM. I have a Windows Surface 2 (RT version) with the Boating HD app. This in fact is now permitted to be on board in place of paper charts as is the same charting information. We also had all the paper charts along the way and also a Raymarine A65 small chartplotter at the Nav station. For plotting my courses I used the Surface tablet and then noted each of the waypoints and plugged them into my chartplotters. I found using the tablet for course plotting extremely useful and much simpler than the paper chart with dividers etc … I also found that having the waypoints in my chartplotter at helm almost a necessity. My 0.02 Mike Persistence 1987 Frers 33 Halifax, NS
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