Re: [Cal_Boats] Re: Garmin 76 Handheld (Gerald)

I sent you a private message. On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 12:56 AM, Gerald Sobel <so… [at] yahoo.com>wrote: > ** > > > I bought my 76 Map on Ebay for 125 bucks on auction five years ago. Too > bad old dogs are adverse to learning anything new. I try to figure out how > t work it while setting up for the start of the race. Good way to be really > frustrated, and mess up your start. So frustrating! So, using an external > powered antennae helps? > You'd think the big swinging antennae on the side of my Garmin II would be > enuff! I wonder how much a plus costs in operating condition? I'll have to > check out of curiosity. > Then maybe put my 76 up for sale, which is a shame cause I bought all the > accessories for it. > Jerry > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Allen Edwards <al… [at] gmail.com> > *To:* Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com > *Sent:* Wednesday, April 11, 2012 10:33 PM > *Subject:* Re: [Cal_Boats] Re: Garmin 76 Handheld (Danny) > > > I use a Garmin GPS III and when I failed after all these years, I bought > two more on eBay. Simple, easy to use interface. In racing, we set it to > big numbers and TURN and Time to Next. TURN is a wonderful function. > Tells you when you are at the layline and when you are on course on a > reach. > > I am using an external powered antenna and it makes all the difference in > the world. It finds the sats in just a few seconds. When I am crew on > another boat, I use a Foretrex on my wrist. People call it my inspector > gadget watch. I can then download the track and overlay them on the > current map to see if we were in the best current. Very instructive. > > I looked at the one West Marine had on sale for about $150. Too hard to > set up. > > Allen > > > >

Allen, thanks for your advice. I was looking in Ebay and saw the Garmin III's are cheaper and more plentiful than the II's. Looking further, I even found a II like mine that was being described as a II plus. The II plus says 'plus' on the rocker button. So, buyer beware. The II is an eight channel and the II+ is a 12 channel, huge difference. But that unit claimed to have been factory furbished, so many they put a new circuit inside of it, with a new battery? Hard to imagine Garmin would be messing around with such an old unit (??!!?!). It they do that would be pretty cool. But the big surprise was finding that the III's were more plentiful and cheeper than the II's! I saw one for 25 bucks in an auction. The internal battery of my II that I bought in 1996 still works but sometimes the unit will forget where it is; the more often it is used, the better it works, interestingly. Maybe I'd better learn how to use my 76 unless I come into some money to fool around, it's just a shame that the 76 is far less intuitive than the triangular unit.. I wonder if there's a way to transfer my II's way points to my newer 76 or a new used III? The good thing is, having a 234 to 240 PHRF means there's usually a few boats ahead of me looking for buoys, but what really sucks is there are few boats under 30' feet so I have to deal with nasty wind shadows, and boats that love to bully you out of their way, but that's another story...the war of evil forces conspiring against small boat. Sheeesh! Jerry From: Allen Edwards <al… [at] gmail.com> To: Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2012 6:54 AM Subject: Re: [Cal_Boats] Re: Garmin 76 Handheld (Gerald) I sent you a private message. On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 12:56 AM, Gerald Sobel <so… [at] yahoo.com> wrote: > >I bought my 76 Map on Ebay for 125 bucks on auction five years ago. Too bad old dogs are adverse to learning anything new. I try to figure out how t work it while setting up for the start of the race. Good way to be really frustrated, and mess up your start. So frustrating! So, using an external powered antennae helps? >You'd think the big swinging antennae on the side of my Garmin II would be enuff! I wonder how much a plus costs in operating condition? I'll have to check out of curiosity. >Then maybe put my 76 up for sale, which is a shame cause I bought all the accessories for it. > >Jerry > > > > >________________________________ > From: Allen Edwards <al… [at] gmail.com> >To: Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com >Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2012 10:33 PM >Subject: Re: [Cal_Boats] Re: Garmin 76 Handheld (Danny) > > > >I use a Garmin GPS III and when I failed after all these years, I bought two more on eBay. Simple, easy to use interface. In racing, we set it to big numbers and TURN and Time to Next. TURN is a wonderful function. Tells you when you are at the layline and when you are on course on a reach. > > >I am using an external powered antenna and it makes all the difference in the world. It finds the sats in just a few seconds. When I am crew on another boat, I use a Foretrex on my wrist. People call it my inspector gadget watch. I can then download the track and overlay them on the current map to see if we were in the best current. Very instructive. > > >I looked at the one West Marine had on sale for about $150. Too hard to set up. > > >Allen > >