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From: John Bickforc (no email)
Date: Sun Sep 14 2003 - 14:58:24 EDT
*** Just noticed a typo in my name as it appears in the "From:" block
above - the last letter is a "d". I'll have to see about fixing
that. jcb ***
A bit about myself: I'm 54 years old, live in Eastern Washington,
USA, and am looking forward to a second retirement in a year or two,
after which my wife and I anticipate transitioning to cruising. I
learned to sail at the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD, in 1967 and
have dreamed ever since of having my own boat to sail around the
Caribbean, carrying charter cruisers wherever they wanted to go. In
June this year we sold our Ericson 30+ that we had for 20 years to
move up to something with a bit more room.
In about two weeks I will be taking delivery of a new 43 foot
catamaran equiped with two Yanmar saildrives so the discussion thread
a few messages ago was quite interesting. (The story of buying this
new boat is rather long so I'll save that for posting to a web page
somewhere).
The second part of the subject of this message relates to this new
boat. The factory installed RayMarine wind, depth, and speed
instruments so I was thinking about sticking with that brand for the
radar and navigation (GPS/chart plotter). However, the electronics
sales manager at the yard that will be "commissioning" the boat tried
to steer me away from that brand towards Furuno or Simrad.
Does anyone have experience with any of those brands, either good or
bad?
Should I listen to the dealer or stick with the same brand for better
integration? (This question could start a whole new discussion thread
about the merits of integrated units vs individual components.)
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