navico corus - spares

[tasweljade]

At some point none has to think about NOT replaceing parts for an obsolete system such as navico corus and replace with a whole new system... Yacht is in USA where simrad is not supporting the system and has no parts - there are a few in UK but very limited

in My maybe soon to be removed corus system
I have depth, speed/temp and wind transducers(wind is only 6 months old)

a c400MB multifunction dislay down below (checked last april in Florida and proved 100%) This is unit that the transducers for depth and speed plug into and single cables leave from.

a C500W analog wind display (LCD doesn't display any more, rest works fine)

two C700DC multi function displays, work fine, look fine

a nema 600 interface box behind nav panel so I expect this is dusty but fine.

The displays all look fine/perfect and work fine with the one exception I mentioned. The 4 sun covers all look a tad sun damaged but that's what they are there for.

The depth transducer is plastic and has been stuck inside the hull, it's removable but will look like it's been glued down with silicon

The speedo transducer is maybe 3 years old, the tru hole part I would keep, BUT I think I may have a extra blank thruhull

The wind transducer has been up on the mast since april 2004 only and I have an unused new mount for it. also have I think spare used cups and wind vane.

any interest/advice

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[ShipsWoofy]

be better if you had this moved to the for sale section, don't ya think!

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[bedouin]

I've got the Corus system and think it is excellent - it's a shame Navico sold out to Simrad.

Of the items on your list the only part that is likely to prove troublesome is the masthead unit. These do tend to be fragile and are now irreplaceable. My boatyard bust mine removing it from the mast a couple of years ago, and luckily were still able to get a replacement then.

Other than that everything else should last for years - I can't see much point replacing it until you have to.

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[tugboat]

I had Corus log and sounder on my last boat and was disappointed with them. The readouts were good but the alarm volume was pathetic. After 2 seasons the display heads had condensation in them. Sent them off for repair - they replaced the PCBs and some other bits. The bill was nearly the cost of the new items. Not impressed.

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[tasweljade]

Thant's what I thought when I dropped $700 for the last wind transducer in the states 6 months ago.... replace this and it will last for years... then something else died... so you rethink again.

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[tasweljade]

HI, frankly... if I had seen the for sale area i may have.. but I didn;t see it.. it's far down the menu ...



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[charles_reed]

Corus

The problem was not condensation but the coating on the inside being unstable - I had 3 sets of new lenses off Navico, all for free, before they sorted out the sub-contractor.

The instruments were particularly advanced for their time and in technical ingenuity rival anything currently on the market. They introduced the concept of seatalk about 3 months before Raytheon.
To shut up my moaning about their totally unsatisfactory 200 instruments James almost gave me a full set, including the navigation unit - at that time I had no intention of going into electronic charting - and apart from the wind unit which suffered from excessively simplistic Spanish removal of the masthead wand has proved very serviceable.
For me the greatest boon of the system is the hourly log it memorises with all the instrument and GPS info - no longer am I compelled to go below to mark the position and make the log, an effort which frequently left me prone in the cockpit calling overboard to Huey.
Of course the LCD will age and finally become illegible.
Unfortunately I don't know of an
The sounder on mine is quite audible (you can vary the volume over 3 levels), but a BYL nuisance, because as soon as you got into deep water (120m+) it starts reading the warm-water anticline, usually at 0.9m.
As with many of Navicos ranges I suspect it was launched too soon and was far too sophisticated for the majority of the market with up to 5 levels of sub-menu on many of the functions.

In fact spares are still available but only made on an ad-hoc basis and the service from Margate is thoroughly unsatisfactory.

But then they're now under the dead hand of a large international organisation...

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