A65 or elite 5 for a plotter
Submitted by hilly9 on Mon, 2014-12-01 16:04
Just want some opinions on whether to buy a raymarine A65 chartplotter or an elite 5 plotter/combo.
I have a dragonfly and am extremely happy with the sounder but think its just a little small in split screen mode with the plotter showing.
I see chsmith has the A65 without wifi with a nav gold card for $699. I Presume I can use the card out of my dragonfly and sell the one I get making it a pretty good deal. Don't see any reason I would need wifi with it either.
Alternatively I could get a Lowrance.
Any suggestions?
Cheers
The_Wanderer
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Hey HillyI would go the Ray
Hey Hilly
I would go the Ray marine over the lowarnce any day the details that you will be able to pull up on the Raymarine units will be better than the Elite 5. Not only that you may be able to link the two units being ray marine.
The other option is if you a have tablet/ipad you can utilise the bluetooth function and have the ipad/tablet as the plotter/sounder