Bill,
Yes. After our experience, Glenn contacted Raymarine to inquire about a
"night mode" and their response was "well, just turn the brightness
down". I agree that I wouldn't put Garmin wind/Depth/Speed on the boat
due to their hard proprietary stance. I do like my Garmin GPS devices
and I find that it interfaces just fine with my Seatalk ng system.
It is pretty embarrassing to do circles in front of a freighter. He was
still probably close to a mile away and Glenn's AIS was active but I'm
sure that the freighter pilot was thinking WTF?
Neil Schiller
1983 C&C 35-3, #028, "Grace"
Whitehall, Michigan
WLYC
On 10/30/2020 7:41 PM, Bill Coleman wrote:
You just hit on one of my pet peeves .Garmin does seem to have this in
a lot of their instruments, but Raymarine, B&G, and Simrad are in the
dark . Literally. What drives me crazy, is that for a few bucks, they
could incorporate night mode, or light intensity adjustment. One of
the worst aspects, is that when you turn your display down in the
evening, and turn it on the next morning, you can't see a darn thing.
It is so avoidable.
Bill Coleman
Erie
On Fri, Oct 30, 2020, 7:30 PM schiller <schil...@bloomingdalecom.net
<mailto:schil...@bloomingdalecom.net>> wrote:
I have always been partial to Garmin chartplotters and Raymarine
wind/speed/depth. We have them all talking through the Seatalk ng
network.
We had an interesting experience with Glenn Gambel's C&C 36 going
over to Milwaukee for the Queens cup in 2018 with his new
Raymarine chartplotter. As it got dark no one noticed how high
the intensity of the display was until we came up on an ore
freighter. Glenn was at the helm and as he tried to go heads out
to locate the freighter he was night blinded by the display and
became disoriented enough that we made two complete circles in
front of this freighter. Glenn finally asked for someone else to
take the helm and I took over and just straightened out the wheel
until we regained some awareness of where we were. It seemed the
display went from manageable to blinding almost instantaneously.
My Garmin's have always gone into night mode at sundown and now I
appreciate that. We did finally get the intensity down to
non-blinding. The freighter shined us with his spot just to see if
we were having issues. He had to be wondering what the hell we
were doing.
Neil Schiller
1983 C&C 35-3, #028, "Grace"
Whitehall, Michigan
WLYC
On 10/30/2020 10:42 AM, David Knecht wrote:
I have had B&G and Raymarine chart plotters and they both have
advantages and disadvantages, so no clear winner for me. I found
the Raymarine a bit more intuitive, but you get used to the
idiosynchracies of either types as you use them. The one thing I
have found really important is if you get a touchscreen model,
make sure it also has backup buttons and knobs for control. I
have periodically had my touchscreen refuse to respond to touch
input, but I can use the buttons/knobs to make it work when that
happens. Some models only work through the touchscreen. Dave
S/V Aries
1990 C&C 34+
New London, CT
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