sarabande
Well-known member
I have been looking at used radar kit for a few months, and do not feel confident to buy, even the "one careful owner" pieces.
Sailing boat, 32ft, mainly low crewed or single handed, GB and NW EU planned cruising. Scanner to be on stern gantry at about 10 - 12ft above sea level (not happy about putting scanner up the mast)+.
I am pretty sure I don't want a 6ft scanner reaching out to 40 miles identifying pot floats, but more of a sense of " there's land ahead at 4 miles and it looks like Plymouth breakwater", or "solid contact 3 miles bearing 000 relative, closing speed 11kts".
Reasonably good radar experience over many years with a 30inch Raymarine monochrome, but a growing sense that the more prudence I can apply to where I am and what is nearby, the happier I shall be.
Reliability is key. I am not driven by integration with chart plotter, unless people can convince me. Standard or digital ? Wifi only ? (I have decent boaty phone and tablet) etc ?
What are the criteria which you regard as 'needed' or "wanted" for simple sailing please ?
TIA
Sailing boat, 32ft, mainly low crewed or single handed, GB and NW EU planned cruising. Scanner to be on stern gantry at about 10 - 12ft above sea level (not happy about putting scanner up the mast)+.
I am pretty sure I don't want a 6ft scanner reaching out to 40 miles identifying pot floats, but more of a sense of " there's land ahead at 4 miles and it looks like Plymouth breakwater", or "solid contact 3 miles bearing 000 relative, closing speed 11kts".
Reasonably good radar experience over many years with a 30inch Raymarine monochrome, but a growing sense that the more prudence I can apply to where I am and what is nearby, the happier I shall be.
Reliability is key. I am not driven by integration with chart plotter, unless people can convince me. Standard or digital ? Wifi only ? (I have decent boaty phone and tablet) etc ?
What are the criteria which you regard as 'needed' or "wanted" for simple sailing please ?
TIA