[C320-list] Which chartplotter do you use?

[Paul Rickman]

While everything you say about the Chesapeake is true, it only
takes once to make a believer out of anyone. On two different
occasions, I've been socked in the fog and didn't know which
way was up. At the time it was before GPS and I had LORAN.
The LORAN brought me out of the fog and to my home port
with ease, staying safely outside the main shipping channels.
And at night, A GPS is love at first sight. 
 
Paul
Affinity 657
Bay Bridge Marina
Chesapeake Bay, Maryland
 

________________________________
 From: Warren Updike <wupdike at hotmail.com>
To: C320-List at Catalina320.com 
Sent: Friday, June 1, 2012 10:22 AM
Subject: [C320-list] Which chartplotter do you use?
  
Ok, call me a Luddite; but, here on the Chesapeake Bay we are (almost)
always in sight of land, our chart book and cruise guide are as well, my
charts on PolarNav are up to date, and my years of sailing here rarely show
anything new.  So, I have resisted the move to a chart plotter, instead
relying on a Garmin hand-held GPS.  

So, why change?  One reason is that our now 18 year old instruments are
starting to crap-out.  Another is that eventually, I'll want (need) to sell
this tub and want it to be attractive to a new buyer.  Rather than wait, we
should think about replacing things now while we can reap the benefits.  

My question, for those who have replaced instruments in recent times, which
instruments and chart plotter do you use and why?  What do you like and
don't like? Has anyone done their own NMEA 2K refit?



Warren & Pattie Updike

1994 C320 #62 "Warr De Mar"