How many bring a secondary GPS on board as back up

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Doug_Meyer

Always a backup

It never hurts to have a backup. We have a pedestal mounted Raymarine C70, and Keep a handheld Garmin GPSMap76 as a backup (and spare batteries because the thing eats them). We also keep a handheld VHF radio aboard.
 
Randy Burns

Randy Burns

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Jun 5, 2004
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Hunter 27_73-83 Harrington, Maine
Two on board

I have an old Garmin with all kinds of routes plotted on it - Ive done some realy stupid things with it in fog, and survived. My backup is another handheld, and doesnt hold a signal nearly as well as the old Garmin 48
 
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larry w

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Jun 16, 2005
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gps backup

My handheld little Garmin 45XL saved our hull when the Raytheon plotter took a dump in Mexico a few years ago. It guided us up the west coast of Baja and through the southern entrance of Bahia Todos Santos, (Ensenada) in the dark with a misty rain falling. I was very glad I'd bought that book of paper charts. Even today I use the Garmin to backup the Raytheon, which I found out has a software glitch. You can't have too many backups.
 
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Shorty

Handheld for the ditch bag

along with a the handheld VHF, flares etc.
 
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