jrudge
Well-known member
My radar is intermittently not happy and the plotter is an C120 classic.
I have a possible decent deal on a Garmin 7000 series plotter and given the radar needs changing anyway I am tempted to swap over.
The lower helm would remain Raymarine ( I use the lower helm very rarely and only in poor weather or long trips ).
From what I have read
- the Raymarine auto helm will work with Garmin ( as in follow the route) but as to other functions like engage / disengage it gets a bit grey
- if there are 2 plotters ( in this case Raymarine and Garmin) auto helm must only talk to one of them ( which is logical) as unlike now they are not networked.
This is not ideal if using the lower helm, but the only practical impact would be an inability to edit the route from below. I could still stops follow etc by using the lower auto helm station.
There are pros and cons of this and I wondered if anyone had actually done this and how it worked out?
I have a possible decent deal on a Garmin 7000 series plotter and given the radar needs changing anyway I am tempted to swap over.
The lower helm would remain Raymarine ( I use the lower helm very rarely and only in poor weather or long trips ).
From what I have read
- the Raymarine auto helm will work with Garmin ( as in follow the route) but as to other functions like engage / disengage it gets a bit grey
- if there are 2 plotters ( in this case Raymarine and Garmin) auto helm must only talk to one of them ( which is logical) as unlike now they are not networked.
This is not ideal if using the lower helm, but the only practical impact would be an inability to edit the route from below. I could still stops follow etc by using the lower auto helm station.
There are pros and cons of this and I wondered if anyone had actually done this and how it worked out?