Not to sidetrack anything, but to the far right do I spy a forward looking sonar?
There's a story behind that.
I loved my new wiz bang interphase forward looking sonar. I bought the one that does a vertical sweep, so I could find my way through narrow channels and see rocks in a potential anchorage.
It was a fantastic piece of equipment, doing everything it promised to do, once you figured it out.
I used it my first season with the boat, and when I went to fire it up the next season it worked when I dewinterized the boat but then quit working.
I tried to call the nice folks at interphase and was shocked to find out that Garmin had bought them out and then shut the doors. No tech support, no spare parts, nada. I was to say the least unhappy.
The symptom was that it appeared too be working but it would not see any return echos. Unhooking the transducer provided a transducer alarm so I know it at least recognized the transfucer.
So, I was stuck, on my own and not having a clear indication of what part was actually bad. I think its either the sonar engine or the trandsucer since the display just used a VGA cable.
When I hauled the boat last fall I checked out the transducer pretty closely and didnt see any place it had been impacted, so now I'm left with a unsupported unit I cannot find spares for.
I keep thinking I'll look on ebay and just buy a whole new unit, to have a spare, because I did like it. it just tweakked me that I could not get support for the unit. I dont use Garmin marine electronics anyway, but if I did I would not anymore.
So, I deinstalled the display, leaving the sonar engine and transducer in place, and in my anguish I bought a third Furuno navnet display to put in its place. I like Furuno. You call and a guy in america answers the phone and helps you out. You never get, "sorry" out of Furuno. I had a display go bad, out of warranty and Furuno charged a reasonable price to repair it, and since it required a software update, they updated all of my displays for free.