whisper
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Has anyone got any knowlegable comments about their CP 32 GPS/Plotter please?
Thanks.
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Thanks.
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JerryHawkins
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What sort of comments are you after? I've had my CP32 for over 3 years and find it a great piece of kit! Not all functions are intuitive so it pays to keep the manual close to hand, but with this its all very easy to use.
Mine is linked to a WP30 wheel pilot and an IS15 instrument system (wind/depth/speed) along with an ICS Nav6Plus Navtex for good measure.
Cheers,
Jerry
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Mine is linked to a WP30 wheel pilot and an IS15 instrument system (wind/depth/speed) along with an ICS Nav6Plus Navtex for good measure.
Cheers,
Jerry
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jfm
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Whisper I had the CP42 (same software) for 4 years then this year we changed boats and now have Raymarine kit (RL80CRC based). I have to say, the Raymarine is miles better. Irritatingly they have portrait screens not landscape (though they become landscape when you split into 2 windows), but the Raymarine software is streets ahead of Simrad imho
With the Simrad, anytime you want to do anything you need the manual and it takes ages to figure out. Nothing is intuitive. The Raymarine system is intuitive and uses softkeys, and I find I can use even the complex marpa functions on Raymarine without ever having read the manual. Also the plug and play networking on raymarine is fab - yesterday I added another colour screen and just daisy chain linked them with a network wire, and the whole network thing just works perfectly
So, I would strongly suggest, dont get the Simrad, get Raymarine, or Furuno (who have a similar softkey/network set up, but I haven't used this much)
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With the Simrad, anytime you want to do anything you need the manual and it takes ages to figure out. Nothing is intuitive. The Raymarine system is intuitive and uses softkeys, and I find I can use even the complex marpa functions on Raymarine without ever having read the manual. Also the plug and play networking on raymarine is fab - yesterday I added another colour screen and just daisy chain linked them with a network wire, and the whole network thing just works perfectly
So, I would strongly suggest, dont get the Simrad, get Raymarine, or Furuno (who have a similar softkey/network set up, but I haven't used this much)
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whisper
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Thanks for the replies gents. The reason for the question is that a boat I'm looking at has a Simrad DSC Radio and CP32 Plotter. Just wondered if they were any good.
Boat we've got at the moment has Furuno GPS which is very intuitive, so rarely need the manual. We would miss its simplicity of operation by the sounds of it.
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Boat we've got at the moment has Furuno GPS which is very intuitive, so rarely need the manual. We would miss its simplicity of operation by the sounds of it.
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