These new units are quite a navigation tool. Here's a shot of a large container ship approaching my port beam-now that is a TARGET!īack when the magnetic compass was whacky, you could see that land masses were always a bit "off" the GPS chart-made for some sweaty-palm moments in the fog. Once I got it calibrated, the UHD radar overlayed perfectly on the GPS chart I finally figured out my Fluxgate Compass (they want to be mounted on the centerline of your boat). The old story with Furuno is truer then true-sometimes it's a major PITA getting them hooked up properly and tweaked right, but once you get your unit dialed in, they are Gold. I probably sound like a shill for Furuno but I thought I'd share these screen caps of UHD radar overlayed on GPS chart
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