Thread: New electronics?

Hi all, thought I should put an end to this. Thank you everyone for your input.
So I ended up going with the Simrad setup for a few reasons;
I was looking at the Furuno as I was told I could get the existing FCV 295 running through a new Furuno touch screen (still not sure if I could or not, mixed opinions), so I took it as a no.
Furuno costings and availability weren't great. I'm very impatient and don't like waiting.
I decided I was happy to keep the FCV 295 as a standalone sounder.
Smirad pricing was pretty good and I had it all within two days of order.
Also had Simrad on the old boat, so at least I knew how to turn it on.

So I ended up with a NSS EVO 16 chartplotter, Halo radar, Ap44 Autopilot and the expensive thing that makes the autopilot work.
I also added a 3 in 1 transducer (cheap about $500) so that I could still have a sounder on the chartplotter for marking waypoints, etc.

Before


After



It took a bit of work just to remove some switching to make room for the screen, also had to move the steering.....actually we had to move everything.