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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