MAIDEN VOYAGE WAS AWESOME TODAY....AND THEN DISASTER

[mrcleanr6]

yes i can confirm this on the 12". it will orient the map in heads up which is great. i only got to use my boat for about 4 weekends before the season ended but in that time i had no issues with the plotter performance wise. it showed me everything i needed to see. yes its not quite as detailed as the full navionics maps on a dedicated plotter but thats not really super necessary to get me where im going without running aground. i am glad it works good because there isnt a spot anywhere that i can mount a stand alone unit on the 275.

 

[212s]

yes i can confirm this on the 12". it will orient the map in heads up which is great. i only got to use my boat for about 4 weekends before the season ended but in that time i had no issues with the plotter performance wise. it showed me everything i needed to see. yes its not quite as detailed as the full navionics maps on a dedicated plotter but thats not really super necessary to get me where im going without running aground. i am glad it works good because there isnt a spot anywhere that i can mount a stand alone unit on the 275.

Hopefully they come up with a way to update the Maps from Navionics on those units. My Actia branded Connext has identical maps to my chartplotter and once I updated the amount of detail was perfect fine. Too bad it was just a bit slow and no heads-up or I would have been ok with it. In fact, in safer waters I probably wouldn't have cared, but in some of our boating areas there's literally hundreds of wrecks and thousands of submerged hazards so a good plotter is essential.

 

[the MfM]

"A tool is only useful if you have it"...something I used to hear as a kid. So if you forget to put the tag on the wheel, it's the same thing as leaving the valve closed.

By failing to prepare you are preparing to fail. :;