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Companies Home Products & Reviews Advanced Search Search Companies Products for Electronic Navigation Reviews Order these reviews by Review Date | Price | Manufacturer Review Date: Jun 2009 Source: Practical Boat Owner Model: Garmin GPSMap 620 Verdict:   Read Full Review   Guide Price: £700 Buy this Product Online Now Review Date: Jun 2009 Source: Motor Boats Monthly Model: C-Map PC Planner and C-Forecast Verdict: For those already using C-Map cartography the PC Planner is an ideal accessory but Neale is not convinced to ditch his dividers.   Read Full Review   Guide Price: £110 Buy this Product Online Now Review Date: May 2009 Source: Motor Boats Monthly Model: Raymarine C Series Widescreen Verdict: With its fantastic user interface, great screen clarity and ability to use Raymarines digital radar the new Widescreen is a near perfect nav centre.   Read Full Review   Guide Price: £1,834 Buy this Product Online Now Review Date: May 2009 Source: Practical Boat Owner Model: Getac rugged laptop Verdict: This is an impressive piece of kit and will work well for onboard navigation. But its an expensive option if thats all you need, and youll need to pay an upgrade fee to have the laptop GPS enabled.   Read Full Review   Guide Price: £3,366 Buy this Product Online Now Review Date: May 2009 Source: Practical Boat Owner Model: Laptop Navigation System for Yachts (LNSY) Verdict: Not the cheapest option, but if you compare it with mounting a 12in chart plotter at the chart table, you're paying two-thirds of the cost for a much bigger screen, wider functionality and easier upgrading.   Read Full Review   Guide Price: £975 Buy this Product Online Now Review Date: Apr 2009 Source: Motor Boats Monthly Model: Navimo AdvanSea Verdict: All the best features from Navimo's experiences with the Navman range have been copied over to three new AdvanSea chartplotters   Read Full Review   Guide Price: n/a Buy this Product Online Now Review Date: Apr 2009 Source: Yachting World Model: SeaCross CX100 Verdict: A high-end, super-quick multi-navigation system.   Read Full Review   Guide Price: £13,638 Buy this Product Online Now Review Date: Mar 2009 Source: Yachting World Model: Navico Broadband radar Verdict: The biggest revolution in radar for 60 years - no magnetron and much higher performance.   Read Full Review   Guide Price: n/a Buy this Product Online Now Review Date: Mar 2009 Source: Yachting Monthly Model: Raymarine C Series Widescreen Verdict: If you're blessed with plenty of bulkhead space you can now supersize your C-series - very useful if you want to use it for multiple displays   Read Full Review   Guide Price: £1,835 Buy this Product Online Now Review Date: Mar 2009 Source: Yachting World Model: PC Planner C-Forecast Verdict: Add detailed weather information to your PC planner.   Read Full Review   Guide Price: £125 Buy this Product Online Now Review Date: Feb 2009 Source: Motor Boat & Yachting Model: Standard Horizon CP300i  Verdict: Widescreen format and swivel mounting bracket make this a compact and flexible plotter that can be swivelled round to helmsman or navigator.   Read Full Review   Guide Price: £580 Buy this Product Online Now Review Date: Feb 2009 Source: Practical Boat Owner Model: Navionics Mobile charts Verdict: A first stab at a proper marine chart for your iPhone   Read Full Review   Guide Price: £92 Buy this Product Online Now Review Date: Feb 2009 Source: Yachting World Model: Lowrance HDS Verdict: Superb functionality with crisp definition at a price comparable with its predecessor.   Read Full Review   Guide Price: £499 Buy this Product Online Now Review Date: Feb 2009 Source: Yachting World Model: Simrad Stella Maris Verdict: On board entertainment and CCTV monitoring are just the tip of the Stella Maris iceberg - the entire navigational system, plus engine monitoring, and 12V and 24V systems are all controllable via one intuitive high-definition touchscreen   Read Full Review   Guide Price: n/a Buy this Product Online Now Review Date: Jan 2009 Source: Classic Boat Model: Garmin eTrex Venture HC Verdict: Ever smaller and more feature-packed, a combined land and sea device.   Read Full Review   Guide Price: £130 Buy this Product Online Now Review Date: Jan 2009 Source: Yachting Monthly Model: Digital Yacht Touch Verdict: A huge, touch-screen plotter that can actually talk, if not quite sing and dance.   Read Full Review   Guide Price: £2,895 Buy this Product Online Now Review Date: Jan 2009 Source: Motor Boats Monthly Model: Garmin GPSMAP 620 Verdict: It's not big, but it is clever. A combined road and sea navigator that uses the latest Garmin BlueCharts.   Read Full Review   Guide Price: £700 Buy this Product Online Now Review Date: Dec 2008 Source: Yachting Monthly Model: Raymarine A-series chartplotters Verdict: Everything you'd expect and at a budget price   Read Full Review   Guide Price: n/a Buy this Product Online Now Review Date: Dec 2008 Source: Yachting Monthly Model: Aleutia E2 Verdict: A computer that is ideally suited to life afloat.   Read Full Review   Guide Price: £199 - £379 Buy this Product Online Now Review Date: Dec 2008 Source: Practical Boat Owner Model: GETAC V100 and B300 ruggedised laptop computers Verdict: The kind of laptop you would not like to meet down a dark alley - especially with its night vision mode.   Read Full Review   Guide Price: £2,647 Buy this Product Online Now Review Date: Dec 2008 Source: Practical Boat Owner Model: Actisense pre-configured NDC-4 multiplexer Verdict: It's like imposing martial law on your electronics.   Read Full Review   Guide Price: £190 Buy this Product Online Now Review Date: Dec 2008 Source: Practical Boat Owner Model: Raymarine A series chart plotters/fishfinders Verdict: Credit-crunch chartplotter - a new addition to the affordable end of the chartplotter market.   Read Full Review   Guide Price: £704 Buy this Product Online Now Review Date: Dec 2008 Source: Practical Boat Owner Model: Pelagic Systems Argonaut Avalon C2 Verdict: A marinised PC system designed to withstand the harshest environments, such as onboard your boat.   Read Full Review   Guide Price: £1,408 Buy this Product Online Now Review Date: Dec 2008 Source: Practical Boat Owner Model: Garmin nuvi 550 Verdict: The crossover GPS comes of age with this multi-function device from Garmin.   Read Full Review   Guide Price: £299 Buy this Product Online Now Review Date: Dec 2008 Source: Practical Boat Owner Model: Smartcom Software Winastro Verdict: Dead reckoning made dead easy - if your GPS goes dead you'll be laughing all the way to the stars - as long as your laptop is still powered.   Read Full Review   Guide Price: £25 Buy this Product Online Now Review Date: Dec 2008 Source: Practical Boat Owner Model: Red Line Instruments FG1-045 Fluxgate compass Verdict: Steer your way to more accurate navigation with this computer controlled compass.   Read Full Review   Guide Price: £296 Buy this Product Online Now Review Date: Oct 2008 Source: Yachting Monthly Model: Pelagic Systems Argonaut Ranger 1500T Verdict: A laptop from the school of hard knocks - but you could buy five disposable ones for the price...   Read Full Review   Guide Price: £2,583 Buy this Product Online Now Review Date: Sep 2008 Source: Practical Boat Owner Model: SI-TEX radar for Standard Horizon plotters Verdict: Designed to take advantage of the plotter's high-speed interface port on the CP180, CP300 and CP500.   Read Full Review   Guide Price: £799 Buy this Product Online Now Review Date: Sep 2008 Source: Practical Boat Owner Model: Digital Yacht CF80 onboard PC Verdict: A versatile and compact onboard PC with plenty of memory and no need for an inverter, but the lack of a monitor, mouse and keyboard makes the lone product less appealing.   Read Full Review   Guide Price: £799 Buy this Product Online Now Review Date: Sep 2008 Source: Practical Boat Owner Model: Nobeltec VNS and Admiral Max Pro Software Verdict: Two navigation companies have put their heads together and turned personal computers into plotting wizards.   Read Full Review   Guide Price: £249 Buy this Product Online Now Review Date: Sep 2008 Source: Practical Boat Owner Model: Garmin high-definition (HD) radar Verdict: The HD revolution is upon us. This radar can gather eight times the information of its predecessor, making navigation by radar a much more reliable prospect.   Read Full Review   Guide Price: £1,100 (18in) £1,600 (24in) Buy this Product Online Now Review Date: Sep 2008 Source: Yachting World Model: Garmin GPS Map5015 Verdict: A king-daddy fully-featured touchscreen plotter which is intuitive to use and comes with some very nifty extras.   Read Full Review   Guide Price: £3,500 Buy this Product Online Now Review Date: Sep 2008 Source: Practical Boat Owner Model: Raymarine HD digital radar Verdict: Claims to match top-end commercial products using less power and eliminate virtually all interference.   Read Full Review   Guide Price: £4,658 Buy this Product Online Now Review Date: Sep 2008 Source: Practical Boat Owner Model: Raymarine SPX autopilot range Verdict: A variety of super-sophisticated autopilots suitable for small powerboats or large racing yachts.   Read Full Review   Guide Price: £881 Buy this Product Online Now Review Date: Aug 2008 Source: Yachting Monthly Model: Nauticom PC Package Verdict: PC plotting made easy-peasy with an all-in-one package that saves a lot of difficult decisions.   Read Full Review   Guide Price: £991 Buy this Product Online Now Review Date: Aug 2008 Source: Yachting World Model: ComNav G4 Navigator Verdict: Improve your heading accuracy with this twin GPS compass system.   Read Full Review   Guide Price: £2,808 Buy this Product Online Now Review Date: Jul 2008 Source: Motor Boat & Yachting Model: Yeoman Sport Freenav GPS kit Verdict: For MBY, you can't improve on the simple accuracy of an Admiralty chart, except by easily plotting your GPS position on it.   Read Full Review   Guide Price: £469 Buy this Product Online Now Review Date: Jun 2008 Source: Yachting World Model: Navionics Small 2 Verdict: XL9 functionality at small boat prices.   Read Full Review   Guide Price: £123 Buy this Product Online Now Review Date: Jun 2008 Source: Yachting World Model: SeaMate 1A Lite Verdict: Avoid that tricky 'no serial port' conundrum with a wireless interface for your NMEA devices.   Read Full Review   Guide Price: £399 Buy this Product Online Now Review Date: Mar 2008 Source: Yachting World Model: Navionics Platinum + Verdict: A timely upgrade for Navionics popular chartware to incorporate improved aerial and 3D imagery.   Read Full Review   Guide Price: £399 Buy this Product Online Now Review Date: Mar 2008 Source: Yachting World Model: Nauteek GPS unit Verdict: A neat tactician for the serious sailracer.   Read Full Review   Guide Price: £298 Buy this Product Online Now Review Date: Mar 2008 Source: Yachting Monthly Model: Echopilot Seacomputer Verdict: A hardwearing onboard computer system designed to withstand the toughest conditions.   Read Full Review   Guide Price: £2,500 Buy this Product Online Now Review Date: Mar 2008 Source: Yachting Monthly Model: MaxSea Time Zero Verdict: Top of the range PC navigation software which makes use of the same seamless technology as Furuno's new NavNet chartplotters.   Read Full Review   Guide Price: £646 Buy this Product Online Now Review Date: Feb 2008 Source: Yachting World Model: Furuno NavNet 3D Verdict: A chartplotter that thinks it's a computer game. Fly over your course and see into the water - truly 21st century.   Read Full Review   Guide Price: n/a Buy this Product Online Now Review Date: Apr 2007 Source: Yachting World Model: Nobeltec Visual Navigation Suite Verdict: Carry out your own underwater survey with this real time echo sounder and chart plotter combo.   Read Full Review   Guide Price: £404 Buy this Product Online Now Review Date: Apr 2007 Source: Yachting World Model: Digital Yacht IB30 Verdict: A budget plotter with a good size screen   Read Full Review   Guide Price: £850 Buy this Product Online Now Review Date: Jul 2006 Source: Motor Boat & Yachting Model: Raymarine RC435i Verdict: Despite various improvements, the RC435i is starting to show signs of belonging to an older generation of plotters. There's nothing wrong with it - it's nicely presented and easy to use. But the screen is pretty grainy, and it's light on some of the bells and whistles offered by more recent designs.   Read Full Review   Guide Price: £816 inc VAT Buy this Product Online Now Review Date: May 2006 Source: Yachting World Model: Lowrance GlobalMap 5150c Verdict: A low cost entry into plotter technology complete with a good selection of charts.   Read Full Review   Guide Price: £425 Buy this Product Online Now Review Date: Jan 2006 Source: Yachting World Model: Seiwa Marlin Verdict: A PC disguised as a chartplotter   Read Full Review   Guide Price: £2,100 Buy this Product Online Now Review Date: Nov 2005 Source: Motor Boat & Yachting Model: Furuno M1934C Verdict: The M1934C is the most expensive radar in this group, blasting through our target price of £4,000, even without add-ons such as a GPS antenna to make its chart plotter work, a heading sensor to take advantage of its north-up facility, or ARPA and AIS. But it was very easy to use, thanks mainly to its utilisation of soft-keys, and it has a good display. Even the automatic gain and clutter controls worked well. What really stood out, though, was just how much difference a capable scanner can make to the performance of a radar.   Read Full Review   Guide Price: £4,200 Buy this Product Online Now   Electronic Navigation related products for sale online. Garmin DAKOTA 10 GPS £ 189.95 inc VAT       Next Page Last Page

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