Like many of us I started sailing just over 50 years ago. I sailed off and on for 20 years and then took a 30 year
vacation flying airplanes, being a
Marine officer and by skill an Air Traffic Controller. Now I'm back to sailboats. When I sailed
GPS was pie in sky, INS was a reality that required a mortgage on the house,
LORAN was real, but only if you could give up a pilot berth for all of the
equipment. So I learned how to use a
sextant. However, as I fit out my Ingrid 38
project I'm looking hard at
radar, and a
GPS chartPlotter.
Here's where I'd like some help from those who have trodded this path already. I'd like to have a
Radar that I can overlay on the
cockpit GPS. In either case I have no interest is a system that will also call home, bake cookies and entertain me with idle chatter. I've already sorted out the USB
antenna to the
laptop for the
charts that I have there. That's a backup. Now remember, I spent 25 years in the
Marine Corps, so the KISS principle applys. What is a reasonably priced GPS that I can overlay the Radar on and what interface bells and whistles are required so that a reasonably intelligent conversation can take place between the two systems? I would prefer not to have to
route them via the computer.
Simple is the key phrase here.
Glen