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Good Delivery
The product was delivered in time and in a very good shape, it is a little bit bigger than I imagined looking through the product images on line, however I think it is good for the purpose. Thank you

Great for my boat
I found this unti to be very easy to use and has all the essential features for saving important fishing spots and navigating my way through fog. I have an 18 foot glaspar cuddycabin and it comes in realy handy going down the river and out into the open sea.

GPS for serious landscape surveys
I use this unit for marking reference way points in my managed grazing system. The functionality is great and I can cross reference and download information with the local area NRCS office.

Proven handheld very reliable
I have used and abused this handheld Map 76 for 5 years. It has been onboard with me from alaska to New Zealand. I often crew on lots of other peoples vessels and I am always glad to have this little GPS with me. I have the Blue Chart America CD downloaded with the California to Mexico portion of detailed maps as that is where I usually cruise and they have great detail. The battery life is exceptional although I usually attach it to a cig lighter outlet whenever I can to save batteries. On my Catalina 42 I have a bicycle mount on my Binnacle and a plug that integrates it with power and data to my auto pilot. The little GPS runs the whole boat from that connection to my Raytheon instruments. I also save all my traks and download them to my computer to save information and routes. It is also useful to study races to see where I have called the wrong tactics on the race course. I also own the updated color version of this unit but in reality I prefer the interface and practicality of this Grayscale version. If I had to choose one I would pick the Map76 without the color. You can usually find the BlueChart CD on line for under 0.00 and that is much more valuable than the Color version that cost about a 0.00 more.......begold

Not Mac compatible, hard to create waypoints
I haven't seen this written explicitly, anywhere, so here goes: This thing isn't mac compatible. Using a serial to USB converter, and some free software (Garmin software will be no help) you can get to the gps data on windows, but good luck if you're on a mac.

Also, it is really hard to create new waypoints on the water. This is because if you try and create a waypoint too close to a known feature (such as a highway, intersection, or BODY OF WATER), the GPS will try and use the center of the feature (or something like that). So, to create waypoints over water, your only solution is to manually enter the lat and long (you can't use the cursor to select a point).