Hi - Coming back to this group after all the great advice helping me upgrade our 12V and Autopilot systems this past year. I'm seeking some input on best way to approach our navigation and instruments upgrade. The boat has a mix of legacy B&G Sailing instruments (wind & speed), Raytheon chartplotter (E80) and radar, and a B&G Autopilot. Ideally I'd like to keep the B&G wind and integrate the old nmea 0183 into a new NMEA 2000 network, enable this data to be displayed on a modern chartplotter. So my first thought was to go Garmin chartplotter, radar and A/P brain/control, and just ditch Raymarine and Seatalk. I think I'd need some sort of bidirectional and multiplexing capability to integrate 0183 with 2000. But I don't know enough about Raymarine and if it's more cost effective to upgrade to a R/M chartplotter and AP brain/controller, keep the radar and integrated the old B&G another way? Seems like there are so many options. The overall goal of upgrading to modern MFD/Chartplotter and network is to facilitate the impl of AIS, engine diagnostics, etc.
Thanks for any insights and advice.
Sean C - J/42 VIDA
Thanks for any insights and advice.
Sean C - J/42 VIDA