Fishfinder chart plotter

[Joe arrigo]

Garmin or samrad

 

[Hookup1]

Need a little more information. Boat model. Fishing? Inshore? Offshore? How seriously?

Multiple displays? Sizes? Radar? Sounder - deep or shallow? CHIRP sounder? Sidescan? Autopilot?

 

[DennisG01]

Well, I certainly wouldn't pick a Samrad. I might pick a Simrad, though

But like Hook said, there's a lot more to it. Both are fine units - Look at comparable units from both and see which one YOU like better. IF you want, consider cost vs features. This is really quite a personal perference type thing and the only preference that really matters is yours.

 

[Joe arrigo]

Need a little more information. Boat model. Fishing? Inshore? Offshore? How seriously?

Multiple displays? Sizes? Radar? Sounder - deep or shallow? CHIRP sounder? Sidescan? Autopilot?

9” sidescan deep water fishing I already have striker 7. What to get rid or it. And I got (uhd73 cv I’m keeping) want to replace striker with something good that’s up to date

 

[Hookup1]

9” sidescan deep water fishing I already have striker 7. What to get rid or it. And I got (uhd73 cv I’m keeping) want to replace striker with something good that’s up to date

How deep is deep water?
What don't you like about the Striker 7?
What transducers do you have?

 

[Uncle Joe]

I have found Garmin to be very user friendly. I have been using them for years.

 

[Ryhlick]

I went with a Garmin 1242xsv, garmin 175hw tranducer, raymarine ev150 auto pilot. I could be happier with how everything works together.

 

[Mustang65fbk]

I prefer Garmin and have used them exclusively over the years, I just bought a new Garmin 943xsv back in early July of which it has SideVu, Traditional and Chirp sonar. IIRC the transducer that I went with was the Garmin GT-56UHD and have no complaints about either, both of them work very well and would buy them again. There's another similar thread about this here...

MFD's

I see quite a few, if not most of Grady's with 2 displays. I assume on the older ones that is before they were multi-functioning displays (seperate chart plotter and depthsounder). Obviously anything newer is going to be MFD's. Is that for redundancy having 2 smaller displays vs 1 larger one...

www.greatgrady.com

 

[A&J Outdoors]

Chevy vs. Ford. Both offer great products, research online and maybe go to a shop that sells both and play with them.