B&G vs Raymarine plotter features for cruising sailing

[pmartin127]

I'd be quite happy if Raymarine just enabled changing the ip address and subnet manually without having to use dhcp.

In reply to davidej I agree the menus are crap (configuring wifi does not appear under Network - go figure) but in my opinion the display is great. Not sure what the resolution is (1280x720?) but the Navionics maps work fine regardless of how far down I zoom - so I wouldn't call the resolution crap.

 

[matt1]

I have the B&G Zeus 3s and the Vulcan 9. The units are unable to reliably track a trip and save the track (usually these get corrupted) which is fine, because despite it being 2021 there isn't a way to export a track in a format anyone else uses. They do support GPX, but the files are always corrupt and don't open in any software I've tried. I do like the interface, and the units are pretty quick. The Halo 20+ radar can spot pot markers reliably, which is nice.

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I’m glad I’m not the only one whose channel crossings appear to randomly end mid channel, or who can’t delete a track I apparently took on the US East Coast! I think your ok with B&G tracks as long as they are less than about 30nm.

Agree the Halo radar is good, but generally I find B&G stuffed with irrelevant features, missing really basic features (max boat speed / max wind gust) and not particularly intuitive. Less would be more and get the basics right would be my hope for B&G. They finally did something to mark dangerous ais targets but even managed to overly complicate that with numerous different colours depending on the radar colour palette! Arghhhh