Unknown chart plotter help/comments

[NUTMEG]

This weekend I may be buying a new boat. It has a chart plotter (amongst other things!) that I have never seen before.

It is a Vision 07 Colour. Apparently it has a card with the UK east coast installed. Anyone any experience of these plotters? Easy/hard to use? Useful features or lack thereof? Stick it in eBay? What's it worth?

I have a SH plotter that I kept from my last boat.

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Any comments or links to a manual much appreciated. I have googled but very little info in this brand of CP

Thanks

 

[sailorman]

http://www.rib.net/forum/f37/vision-07-color-chartplotter-38329.html

 

[sailorman]

http://www.ybw.com/forums/showthread.php?116577-vision-gps-chart-plotter

 

[sailorman]

http://easternyachts.com/widgeon/specifications.htm

 

[NUTMEG]

Thanks Sailorman, quick work! I found those three results when googling earlier. Not much info in them. Looks like they are pretty rare. I was hoping someone here may have used/owned one and could offer comments on how good, or not, they are.

 

[sailorman]

Thanks Sailorman, quick work! I found those three results when googling earlier. Not much info in them. Looks like they are pretty rare. I was hoping someone here may have used/owned one and could offer comments on how good, or not, they are.

Im sure one is much the same as another just different logic

 

[Plevier]

Wrote a reply but seem to have lost it try again!

Looks identical to an Interphase Chartmaster 7CVX I had. Slow and tedious to operate.
Interphase now a Garmin subsidiary.
There was a manual online but I can't find it now maybe you can.
Try on retrevo.com
http://www.retrevo.com/support/Interphase-Chart-Master-7CXS-GPS-manual/id/22953ci758/t/2/ not quite the right one

Pic here http://www.marineelectronicshoppe.com/interphase/7CVX.htm reckon yours is a rebadged variant.

 

[NUTMEG]

Troubadour, thank you. That looks like the one. I am glad I kept the SH now

 

[Plevier]

SH greatly superior.
I changed to a Garmin 750 huge improvement.
The 7CVX dated from 2002 Jeanneau fitted them briefly.
I got £120 for it I think a year ago. There was one on eBay at 200 don't know if it sold.

 

[NUTMEG]

Hmm. eBay then. Any funds raised can go toward a new DSC/VHF. Thanks for the info.

 

[orangemikey]

I have a vision 7 b&W plotter. Is ok and does the job.
Slow to refresh when zooming in and out
Also loses gps signal for 1-2hrs a couple of times a season.

Depends how much you depend on the plotter.
Agree that SH plotters are far superior!

 

[NUTMEG]

Thanks mate. If the sale of my boat goes through tomorrow I will have the funds to pay for new boat and will have a play with it.