timjet
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Until I bought a Raymarine E-90W chart-plotter at the Miami boat show in February I was using a Garmin 740 Chart-plotter.
After installing the Raymarine unit with Radar and getting a little use out of it, I'm very surprised that two very important features are not available on the Raymarine units.
When navigating a route, it is not possible to display time to destination or distance to destination when viewing the chart application or radar application. It is possible to view this information but the route information page must be brought up requiring several button presses to get there. And then to return to the radar or chart-plotter page several buttons must be pressed again.
This seems to me to be basic information that most folks would want always displayed. My Garmin unit does that and will probably continue to be my primary chart-plotter.
Secondly, each route on my Raymarine unit will only hold up to 50 waypoints. I guess the good folks at Raymarine have never created a route on their chart-plotters when navigating the AICW as the 50 waypt limitation will get you only a few miles.
Had I know of these two limitations before I bought the Raymarine unit I would have reconsidered.
After installing the Raymarine unit with Radar and getting a little use out of it, I'm very surprised that two very important features are not available on the Raymarine units.
When navigating a route, it is not possible to display time to destination or distance to destination when viewing the chart application or radar application. It is possible to view this information but the route information page must be brought up requiring several button presses to get there. And then to return to the radar or chart-plotter page several buttons must be pressed again.
This seems to me to be basic information that most folks would want always displayed. My Garmin unit does that and will probably continue to be my primary chart-plotter.
Secondly, each route on my Raymarine unit will only hold up to 50 waypoints. I guess the good folks at Raymarine have never created a route on their chart-plotters when navigating the AICW as the 50 waypt limitation will get you only a few miles.
Had I know of these two limitations before I bought the Raymarine unit I would have reconsidered.