Radar Choice

[PhilF]

Gotta have one fitted.Never used the one I had on the previous boat.
Might go across channel this year.
What should I buy and any good fitters to recommend.
Thanks in advance

Philf

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[Talbot]

From previous history, spending a lot of money for additional functionality would appear to be unimportant, therefore I would recommend the <A target="_blank" HREF=http://www.pyacht.net/cgi-local/SoftCart.exe/online-store/scstore/h-jrc_1500MKII.htm?L+scstore+kdmv2929ffe68ce6> JRC 1500 </A>.

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[Johnnygil]

Phil,

Just follow a ferry save a grand

J

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[Planty]

The Raymarine fitted on Damn, seems a good piece of kit, Colour, nice size, radar/gps plotter etc. Fitted by insight marine I believe at Sealine before delivery. I have his number and you can come over and have a play anytime, might be worth a 100metre walk. You may get plied with drink too, which is always a bonus!! Paul

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[ChrisP]

Fitted a Raymarine C120 screen and 18" scanner 2 weeks ago. Brillant peice of kit and a decent size screen (it can be split into 4 for radar, chart plotter, rolling road and fish finder). I got it from Eurotech in Brighton and fitted it myself as i was taking the old one out but Malcolm there will fit for extra charge.

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[Tomsk]

I have played around with a number of different systems recently as am about to buy myself one. I *REALLY* like the Raymarine C120 it's the dogs... BUT, and it's a big BUT, my experience says that anything to do with boats will go wrong and usually at the wrong time. With separate radar, plotter, gps and sounder you have three or four methods of navigation - even if some of those are somewhat limited. Combine all these into one and a system failure is you totally blind and lost in the water. It's great kit, but at what cost?

Definately my choice will be separates, and using my life long philiosophy - buy the best that you can afford at the time... I'm certainly considering the JRC range.

<hr width=100% size=1>Tomsk -

What the hell... it's only money!

 

[Wiggo]

Have to agree with Talbot, though the JRC1800 is a plotter as well. Fit it yourself, if you are anywhere near useful with your hands. Raymarine is better spec and resolution (screen resolution, that is), but twice the price...

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[steverow]

Phil,

For a standalone radar the Raymarine SL72+ takes some beating.
Personally, I would stay with separates for safety.
Fit it yourself..it aint rocket science if you read the install manual.

Hows the guitar?
Thought I might treat myself to a new one for my fiftieth the other week, but couldnt decide on what to buy..so I left it..pending.. any advice for something different?

Steve.


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[PhilF]

thanks all. its a toss up between the sl72 and the furuno. Separates best I think.
Soon as I complete on the purchase - report to follow

PhilF

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[tcm]

agreed. We now have a colour furuno, and background is white and the dots are red AND green. Instead of um monchrome greenish as on the previous boat cheapy set - which was just as good.

Oh, and total and utter waste of loot is the "overlay" function with radar overlaid on the chartplotter. Cos of course we want charts north-up, but radar course-up. You need to change the chart to course-up for overlay, which means that only a woman who can't quite read a map will sort-of understand what's going on. Nice software, rubbish result.

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[MapisM]

An exception (NB)

I totally agree on your viewpoint on course-up charts.
SInce years, I always thought that such feature was added in chartplotters just because the hardware was there, and some more lines of programming were well worth an additional line on the features list, just for marketing purposes.

But recently, I realized that the feature does have a purpose.
I was travelling on a motorway on the hills: around midnight, awful weather, rainy and foggy. And I was in a hurry.
Hence the idea: I turned on my car navigation system, set course up, maximum scale.
I can tell you, it is an excellent tool to anticipate those curves where you need to reduce speed.
And at 150 mph on a wet road, it is much better to know that with some anticipation.

Hoping of course that the accuracy of the cartography is as good as it should be... /forums/images/icons/cool.gif
...but I found that this is normally the case for motorways.

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[No1_Moose]

You don't have to have the green and red colour.


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