Raymarine C80 GPS Antenna

[Halo]

Dear all
Went for a lovely sail in the North Sea in my Legend 33 yesterday but this was blighted by the fact that some low life scum bag has nicked my GPS antenna -unbolted from pushpit and cut the wire. The system is integrated with steering , screen in front of wheel, and repeater at chart table. Has anyone had to replace one of these and do you now a good source?
All the best for 2011
Martin

 

[pvb]

Easiest answer will be to replace with a Raystar 125. About £200, but it can connect via SeaTalk. I replaced my old 120 with a 125 when the 120 died (at a premature age!).

 

[davidwf]

Might be worth flush fitting new one into the deck that way they have to get into the locker to remove it. Mine is fitted there and apart from when someone sits on it it works well.

This is a good bet http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Marine-GPS-an...tEquipment_Accessories_SM&hash=item19c19d9d6f only £90 new would mean that you have to rewire for NMEA instead of seatalk though.

 

[noelex]

The Raymarine GPS will be an easy replacement, but give some thought to a separate gps unit like the Furuno GP-32

A similar price
Provides redundancy if the C80 fails
Enables GPS display without the chartplotter and therefore much lower power.
Low power and better anchor alarm
More versatile EGNOS (it will actually work now with EGNOS)

The other option is a permanently wired handheld such as the Garmin 72H.With similar advantages.

Make sure if you do go for a non Raymarine unit you have a free spare, suitable NMEA input.