Raymarine Manual

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Have to say that I am not impressed to find that the £1100 worth of new Raymarine plotter I have purchased doesn't come with a printed manual, if I want one of them I have to fork out £11.49 to another company. Would print it out but at 459 pages I don't think so!
All my old ones used to come with spiral bound glossy manuals in a a cloth case.
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It does seem daft, but not uncommon. Really annoying and not a practice I would support by buying their product.

The implication is they either expect you to print it out, which looks quite expensive, or buy the manual, or they expect you to have internet access when you need to use some function or other - this suggests even more expense. Maybe they do not care as to whether the customer can use all the functions. A reason to buy from someone that does offer manuals in the box.

Jonathan
 
Can you not just download it (if you can print it out, presumably you can) and keep it on your phone or tablet or notebook as a PDF? Then you can access it any time without the web. Paper is so last year....!
 
SimbaDog said:
Have to say that I am not impressed to find that the £1100 worth of new Raymarine plotter I have purchased doesn't come with a printed manual, if I want one of them I have to fork out £11.49 to another company. Would print it out but at 459 pages I don't think so!
All my old ones used to come with spiral bound glossy manuals in a a cloth case.
:(:(
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I bought one of the new generation of C Series three years back and it was a bit disappointing to see the fabric folders and spiral bound manuals replaced with a DVD.

Shortly I will be getting some new B&G kit and will be interested to see I the provide proper manuals or not
 
Once upon a time, I had one of those pilot bags, you know, about the max size to use as a carry on bag on sleazy jet. Stuffed full of manuals for all the things on board. It's been dumped. All the manuals are stored as PDFs on the iPad, Kindle and laptop. Three sources of the same materiel, all of which are on the boat already and I don't get a hernia lifting the bag out, taking it out of the dry bag, sorting through all the manuals to find the one I want before loosing the will to live and resorting to pushing random buttons until I get the function I want working. I know this won't suit some folks but it works fine for me.
 
SimbaDog said:
Have to say that I am not impressed to find that the £1100 worth of new Raymarine plotter I have purchased doesn't come with a printed manual, if I want one of them I have to fork out £11.49 to another company.
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Which company would that be ? Do you have a link ?

I think the reason Raymarine don't supply printed manuals with their MFDs is partly due to the fact that they are continually updating and upgrading the software. I've owned mine for 2 years and there have been many revisions and additions so that any original prionted manual would be so completely out of date as to be useless. Also, they do provide the manual inside the device now so I suppose they would argue it is less necessary anyway.

Boo2
 
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Little Grebe said:
I bought one of the new generation of C Series three years back and it was a bit disappointing to see the fabric folders and spiral bound manuals replaced with a DVD.

Shortly I will be getting some new B&G kit and will be interested to see I the provide proper manuals or not
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They come on a stick. But you can load them onto the plotter as well.
You can also download all the PDFs onto iPhone and iPad. No need to print out.
 
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