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The Standard Horizon CP160, which does not have a color screen, is on sale
at Boaters World for $399. As I understand, that is below wholesale. The
regular price is $599. They are discontinuing the unit. I just received
the one I ordered from their web page.
Don Dunlap
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephen Weinstein" <>
To: "liveaboard list" <>
Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 1:56 PM
Subject: Re: lv-ab: Chartplotters and c-map
> Don,
> I can only give you my $.02 based up my new Standard Horizon CP170C. This
> is a color chartplotter (7" diag. screen) which I mounted at the pedestal.
> I posted a picture of the setup at: www.hunterowners.com . Click "Forums"
> (upper left of the page), then "Hunter Forums", then "Photo/Project
Forums",
> and look for my name.
>
> Essentially I used a piece of starboard cut to fit inside the radius of
the
> pedestal and mounted the plotter stand on that. Power and antenna leads
> were run down inside the pedestal with the power leads going to the panel
> and the antenna lead run aft to under the stern rail. The tiny mushroom
> antenna mounts on the stern rail.
>
> The Standard Horizon uses the C-Map NT charts which I find very easy to
use
> and, for the most part, cover the same areas as the Maptech Chartbooks. In
> my case the one chart I have is Region 3 which is New York to Block
Island.
> The chart cartridges seem to run in the neighborhood of $150/ea. and from
> what I can tell conform to all the various Maptech paper chartbooks.
>
> The nice thing about the C-Map charts is, being vector charts, you can
> customize how much data you want to clutter the screen. Just add or
subtract
> layers. Another nice thing about C-Map is that unlike the Garmin
BlueCharts
> which are proprietary to Garmin and are useless with other plotters, the
> C-Map cartridges are used my many of the top level chartplotters. So, if
> down the road (seaway?), you want to move up to a more sophisticated
(read:
> expensive) plotter, chances are your investment in charts won't have
> been wasted. And C-Map has a program for updating the cartridges as
> required.
>
> Color or B&W? For my money, I'd get the color. I tried the B&W and just
> wasn't happy with it. The color plotter seems to have more "punch" in
> viewing in various daylight conditions with infinite brightness and
contract
> controls. The CP170C also has a nifty "night" mode which, while leaving
> everything very readable, doesn't kill your night vision.
>
> FWIW, I've begun to see this plotter being discounted to the mid $700's as
> opposed to Spring '02 pricing of $1000.
>
> Just my $.02.
> Steve Weinstein
> Hydro-Therapy
> A 1981 Cherubini H33
> Sailing out of Oyster Bay, NY
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Don LePage" <>
> To: "liveaboard list" <>
> Sent: Monday, November 11, 2002 11:11 PM
> Subject: lv-ab: Chartplotters and c-map
>
>
> > Since we are on the topic..I inherited an autohelm chartplotter with my
> > new old boat that uses the old c-map CF85 cartridges. I came with one
> > C-Map cartridge H117 Georgian Bay/ southeast. It is useless to me at
> > the moment since I moor my boat on Lake Ontario and have no plans of
> > moving north in the near future. I would really like to find some of
> > the Lake Ontario C-Maps of this vintage they are H210 Lake Ont to
> > Olcott, H211 Oshawa to Grindstone and H212 Clayton to Point Breeze. It
> > is not important to the currency of these charts because I use a
> > computer loaded with moving map software and current electronic charts.
> > I want to use the autohelm to simply set a course and use the steering
> > compass with it.
> >
> > Been watching Ebay with no success
> >
> > Don LePage
> > My CC Web Site http://x42120.tripod.com/
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> > 1956-16 Peterborough runabout
> >
> >
> >
> >
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