Boat is a 6m Centre Console (Penguin hull) with foam filled hull (making it heavy)

Well I had been thinking about doing this review for a while, though after my worst day with the unit, and a couple of nips of Port, I thought it would be the ideal time to vent my opinions on this unit.

Purchased from the forums, in NEW condition (still in box, in plastic), I picked up and installed the unit a couple of months back, and have had 6-10 trips out and about to play with it.

Initial thoughts on the install were that it was very easy. straight forward and with the addition of an inline fuse, we were powered up in the back yard. Being the impatient person I am, we launched the next day at Leeuwin Barracks and putted down the harbour and back.

With about 2 years of sailing behind me, working with a variety of Echo Sounders (yes, kids, Echo Sounders), plotters and fish finders, this was my first adventure into an all in one product.

The initial sounds going down river were extremely pleasing. motoring past moorings you could not only see the fish at the mooring assembly, but also the rope going down, piles along Northport and even the underwater structure on the bridges. Sonar is as expected though the down vision with the CHIRP was exception. You could almost see the starfish thinking about which way to go. Very pleasing.

Very happy with the unit, I went home content.

After a couple of fishing runs out, it told me where fish were and we successfully landed numerous whiting and various other bottom dwelling critters and the clarity of bottom structure is brilliant.

Good things:
- Install is easy (I am not a sparky)
- Down vision is spectacular
- Easy to identify if you are on weed, sand or rock)
- Saving a waypoint (on sonar or plotter screen) is a two press process. Easy as!
- it looks pretty.

This is where I think the good things about this unit end in my opinion.

In no particular order:
- It is very slow like a 5 year old computer slow, when booting up, and sometimes when changing screens.
- Three times, it has lost the bottom, when the boat is stationary. First two times in sub 5m, and today in 20m, for 30 minutes.
- Today it lost me. Complete GPS and sonar failure. Two restarts and nothing. left for 20 minutes it finally got GPS back (speed only, not location) and then location, and then sonar, minutes apart.
- It is a fish finder and chart plotter, not a GPS. I expected at a minimum a GPS screen (DTG, BRG, Lat and Long)
- You cannot simply put in waypoints from Lat and Long. you need to put one (very easily) in and then go and edit to the position you want
- The 5 inch screen is really too small when on split screen. I have fairly good vision though have to look hard to see depths on the plotter

This unit, in my opinion, is like going out with a Miss Teen USA model. You like it because it is pretty though get disappointed when she cant figure out how far you will go in 30 minutes, when doing 100 kmh.

I don't know if my expectations were too high on this unit though given I had the money again, I would get a dedicated GPS/Plotter + a dedicated fish finder.

Hope this is helpful to any potential buyers.