Hi Steve, What kind of sailing instruments (do you recommend) for my 52′ sloop? My builder says he’s found Raymarine to be more reliable than B&G. And my electronics expert wants me to use B&G. Do you have any preference? And why? Or there is always Occam, but everybody seems to say to use B&G instead. Many thanks, Mac
Hi Mac: My only direct experience over the last 15 years has been B&G. As a builder we installed their gear because it was the most reliable, and caused us and our clients very few problems. But my guess is that today you can probably go with almost any system, and do OK. B&G stuff was/is pricey. But for the high end systems, where you need the performance processor, it still seems to be the choice of most race boats. If you don’t need the performance data, then I would buy a more modestly priced set of gear (the only thing you really need is a good depth finder–for wind data you can look at the woolies and water and make a very accurate estimate of what’s going on). Regards–Steve
Posted by Steve Dashew (November 30, 1999)
