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What are most people using for electronics (i.e. GPS, radar, etc)? Fixed or handheld?
I'm starting from scratch....any recommendations?
I'm starting from scratch....any recommendations?
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Monty...depends on what you want to accomplish and where you plan on going. My buddy Karl has a full radar/chartplotter on his powerquest. Its the coolest system i've ever seen and helped instal! The thing can track 16 different object and alert you if you are on a collision course with any of them!!!! Now his is all a bit overboard but if you know him its nothing new! ![Big Grin](/forums/images/smilies/biggrin.gif)
I'd say if you were gonna stick around here inthe great lakes and dont plan on making any super late night crossings then a good GPS with maybe a chart plotter would be about all you need.
There has only been one time out on lake michigan that i could have used a radar....and that was coming back form Miluwakee at about midnight and a fog hit us....couldnt see infront of the boat....took us about 2 1/2 hours to get from Racine to Zion!!!
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I'd say if you were gonna stick around here inthe great lakes and dont plan on making any super late night crossings then a good GPS with maybe a chart plotter would be about all you need.
There has only been one time out on lake michigan that i could have used a radar....and that was coming back form Miluwakee at about midnight and a fog hit us....couldnt see infront of the boat....took us about 2 1/2 hours to get from Racine to Zion!!!
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