Chart plotter options

 Trying to decide on a new chart plotter it will only be used as a plotter what are your thoughts? Willing to spend around the $1500 mark

im thinking of these 

Garmin echo map 70s $1300

Hummingbird 998cx $1500

hummingbird 898cx $1000

lowrance hds 7 gen 2 touch $ 1700

simrad nss8 touch with map card $1800

Cheers

roddo


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 which ever looks best in

Wed, 2014-04-02 19:02

 which ever looks best in your boat. They all pretty good plotters. my choice would be simrad.

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 I was thinking the simrad

Wed, 2014-04-02 19:41

 I was thinking the simrad they have some pretty awesome functions

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Is that with the

Wed, 2014-04-02 20:04

C-map deal?

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 If you mean the simrad it's

Wed, 2014-04-02 20:49

 If you mean the simrad it's with a navionics

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 I need to get a new one too,

Thu, 2014-04-03 07:47

 I need to get a new one too, are they easy to put in yourself?

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 I ended up picking up the

Thu, 2014-04-03 20:59

 I ended up picking up the simrad today and it looks a piece of cake to install the hardest part is deciding where to mount it. I wanted to flush mount it in the dash but it means moving to many things.