As a huge fan of Active Captain. I urge you to both try AC and verify that your prospective chart plotter/MFD works with AC.
I too looked at the Raymarine MFDs and talked to one of their sales reps at the Annapolis Boat show. I was disappointed with the lack of open source compatability. It seemed like a collection of solid products that integrate really well with one another to create a lot of powerful features. Unfortunately, it appeared that a lot of those powerful features where lost if the individual components were not matched with other Raymarine products in the same vintage. So, as long as you buy the entire package and plan to keep the entire package (auto-helm, chartplotter(s), radar, network, remote apps via phone/tablet) together as a system (more or less forever) then it will probably be fully satisfying. My experiences with technology have been that anything proprietary eventually goes out of style. I said this about the iPhone 30 pin connector and now look at all the car stereos and home audio accessories that no longer integrate as beautifully as they used to. YMMV Josh Muckley S/V Sea Hawk 1989 C&C 37+ Solomons, MD On Jan 11, 2016 1:11 PM, "Edd Schillay via CnC-List" <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> wrote: > Listers, > > So I was at the NY Boat Show this past weekend and took a good look at the > Raymarine e-Series (specifically the e9 one). Built-in GPS and data display > of other information hooked up to the system (including my new Raymarine > EV200 autopilot.) > > Does anyone have one? Pros? Cons? The price seems very low given all it > does, especially compared to the cost of my current Garmin GPSMap2006C. > > > > All the best, > > Edd > > > Edd M. Schillay > Starship Enterprise > C&C 37+ | Sail No: NCC-1701-B > City Island, NY > Starship Enterprise's Captain's Log <http://enterpriseb.blogspot.com/> > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Email address: > CnC-List@cnc-list.com > To change your list preferences, including unsubscribing -- go to the > bottom of page at: > http://cnc-list.com/mailman/listinfo/cnc-list_cnc-list.com > > >
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