TwoDot
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Having problems with my old Raymarine electronics package and considering an upgrade. What are your thoughts/preferences between Raymarine, Furuno, and Garmin? Pros and cons? What about map package? Navionics, Lighthouse, C-Map?
I would not recommend Simrad, even though they may have the best Autopilot.
Furuno or Garmin.
We went with Garmin after having waaaayyyyy too many issues with Raymarine in the past.
Raymarine may have things under control now but they used up all of my available forgiveness.
People I respect in the industry like Garmin and that is what we finally chose. It is very easy to use. It is far more backwards comparable than Raymarine though not in the league of Furuno and customer support is effortless to reach.
A huge step in the right direction for us!
Bruce
That's the type issues I saw. The new Sea Ray L Series of boats have new Raymarine, state of the art. Unfortunately, they'd shipped one product that was clearly not ready for prime time. Now, to their credit they did replace them all, but it was still a nightmare for purchasers.
At last years Newport Boat show I had a long honest talk with a Raymarine engineer. He wanted to understand my history with the company and he knew going into the conversation that Raymarine was not on my list.
We spoke in depth about the many Raymarine failures we had suffered. He acknowledged that each failure was a known problem.
He listened to my thoughts and did not push his brand as my mind was already made up. He did convey that the company under Flir was becoming a much better company with some very advanced product.
The final round of Raymarine product that we installed on our previous boat worked just fine. It was the best of their gear we had used.
Still, I was personally done.
Bruce
It's very encouraging when an acquired company gets better post-acquisition. It's also very rare. Big thumbs up to Raymarine and FLIR!
Did you ask which anchor? Oh, no. Which electronics.