ICS Nav6 plus anyone use?

[Cheeky Girl]

Hi
I have a 2003? ICS Nav6plus on the boat and it was connected to a Raymarine 435 plotter which has now given up the ghost

Last year I never managed to get any sense out of the Nav6 just the GPS position but no weather info.
As I will be sailing in the Clyde and West coast , do I really need it?
Is it worth replacing the Raymarine 435?
I have an Axiom Pro on the binnacle can I connect it to the Nav6 via the NMEA2000 backbone?

Thanks for your thoughts
Graham

 

[Deleted member 36384]

I have the Nav6+ and sail the Clyde and West Coast.

It's not worth it because forecasts are 10 a penny from mobile devices. I get my weather from the phone and when I can't get a signal, I do get one when I move on. Not getting a signal is rare.

Sometimes I scroll through the Navtex just for the sake of it, but as I said, it's all mobile devices now for weather. As far as sub facts are concerned, even more irrelevant and as far as oil rig movements you may as well listen to asteroid forecasts
for potential impact risk.

You are using the tube type antenna and not the small shark fin style antenna? The shark fin does not work on the Nav6Plus.

On a plus side, it is a back up, but if my phone busts, everyone else has one as well.

 

[DipperToo]

I have the Nav6+ and sail the Clyde and West Coast.

It's not worth it because forecasts are 10 a penny from mobile devices. I get my weather from the phone and when I can't get a signal, I do get one when I move on. Not getting a signal is rare.

Sometimes I scroll through the Navtex just for the sake of it, but as I said, it's all mobile devices now for weather. As far as sub facts are concerned, even more irrelevant and as far as oil rig movements you may as well listen to asteroid forecasts
for potential impact risk.

You are using the tube type antenna and not the small shark fin style antenna? The shark fin does not work on the Nav6Plus.

On a plus side, it is a back up, but if my phone busts, everyone else has one as well.

Agreed about the mobile weather, but it is also a very good instrument repeater in its own right and can store passage details at predefined time intervals..

 

[Cheeky Girl]

I have the Nav6+ and sail the Clyde and West Coast.

It's not worth it because forecasts are 10 a penny from mobile devices. I get my weather from the phone and when I can't get a signal, I do get one when I move on. Not getting a signal is rare.

Sometimes I scroll through the Navtex just for the sake of it, but as I said, it's all mobile devices now for weather. As far as sub facts are concerned, even more irrelevant and as far as oil rig movements you may as well listen to asteroid forecasts
for potential impact risk.

You are using the tube type antenna and not the small shark fin style antenna? The shark fin does not work on the Nav6Plus.

On a plus side, it is a back up, but if my phone busts, everyone else has one as well.

HI

Its the shark fin antenna as well

 

[Deleted member 36384]

ICS Leisure Systems | ICS Electronics Ltd

ICS updated my old Navtex software and replaced the shark fin antenna. They were very good. I now have replaced that with a Nav6+ which came with the tube type antenna. I would call ICS and discuss with them if you are minded to keep it. The way I see it, I have it, it works, so I will keep it. With my plotter on deck, the rolling road feature on the Navtex, down below is useful, taking its data from the plotter.

 

[ithet]

I have a Nav 6+. As a repeater and position logger it is great. Never really use it for weather with the type of sailing I currently do. It repeats the my eS plotter and ST60 instrument data. The data comes from the STng and ST1 bus's via the old Raymarine ST1-NMEA0183 box, but I intend to reconnect to the NMEA0183 output of my Vesper 6000 at some time.

 

[prv]

I have one too; it works perfectly well but for my sailing the Navtex functions are really just a toy. We're only out of mobile data range for a few hours in the middle of a Channel crossing. The NMEA repeater function is mildly useful for doing paper chartwork, or keeping an eye on wind and depth in the evening when at anchor.

Pete