This is a GPS device made just for sailing and you can pick one up online for $400.
How this is different than GPS chartplotters is that it is very difficult to correctly estimate time of arrival on those. What this GPS does is that it accounts for the tacking that sailboats and also give you the optimal tacking angles and your Tacking Time to Destination (TTD). It does this by displaying how long it will take to reach each tack, and the optimal tacks to arrive earliest.

Another handy feature of this Sailing GPS is the ability to talk to Google Maps via bluetooth which beats entering lat long manually. When you’re done you can hook up to a computer and see your vessel’s speed stats, and wind speeds.

The Sailing GPS is based on a new patent called “Navigational Planning and Display Method for the Sailor’s Dilemma When Heading Upwind” which was filed 6 years ago but just recently granted.

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Sailing GPS

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Garmin today announced BlueChart Mobile marine app for iPad and iPhone. With the new BlueChart app, captains can now make use of BlueChart data found in Garmin chartplotters.

The app also lets you connect to ActiveCaptain, a website community that provides content generated by mariners for mariners. You can also plan and create routes, view shaded depth contours and inter-tidal zones, search for a marine service point to find out the phone number, hours of operation, and information about amenities and services available.

Supposing you have internet connection on your iPad you can also get weather conditions, temperatures, dew points, wind direction and speed, radar and cloud cover – all overlaid on the chart data.

And if you happen to have a Garmin chartplotter on board you can wirelessly transfer routes, waypoints and tracks created from the BlueChart Mobile app. There’s also a cool feature where you can “follow the boat” by sharing the GPS capability on the charplotter even if your iPad don’t have this feature.

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Garmin BlueChart Marine App for iPad

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Lowrance, which specializes in marine GPS technology and chartplotters and fishfinder just recently introduced the Lowrance HDS-10 Gen2 Fishfinder/Chartplotter. It has a 10″ color screen and comes with either enhanced U.S. basemap, or intuitive, life-like Insight USA mapping, or Worldwide (non-Americas): Navionics world background map. Some other features include:

• Realtime StructureMap capability
• built-in Broadband Sounder
• internal GPS antenna
• High-bright, sunlight-viewable display with LED backlighting
• TrackBack feature to review sonar history and save waypoints on key locations
• NMEA 2000 and high-speed Ethernet networking options

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Lowrance HDS-10 Gen2 Fishfinder/Chartplotter

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The crew at Field & Stream recently posted their picks for this year's best new fishing gear and Garmin's newest marine-friendly handheld – the GPSMAP 78sc - took home the "Best New Marine GPS" honor.

"While you should carry a compass for emergencies, the 78sc makes things more certain. It's easy to use, it runs on AA batteries, it's waterproof, and it floats," they touted. The GPSMAP 78sc was also praised for its built-in 3-axis tilt-compensated electronic compass, which shows yourheading even when you're standing still. With its colorful maps, durable and buoyant design – the GPSMAP 78sc is everything a mariner needs, and Field & Stream agrees. "The GPSMAP 78sc doesn't make coffee, but it does plenty."

Click here to learn more about the 78sc and Garmin's other marine-friendly handhelds that are built specifically with the outdoorsman in mind.

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Field & Stream selects GPSMAP 78sc as Best New Fishing Gear

Garmin and Volvo Penta just formed an alliance to create marine instrumentation including GPS navigation and communication equipment. Announced at the Miami International Boat Show the partnership will leverage Volvo’s propulsion and Garmin’s navigation expertise. They think they can start pushing out products by 2012 based on previous experience such as the GHP 10V autopilot system designed for Volvo IPS drive.

The alliance is a smart one since Volvo Penta link engines and transmissions with instruments, controls and accessories in the electronic vessel control platform, known as the EVC, and now they can now make us of Garmin’s instrumentation, navigation and communication solutions.

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Garmin and Volvo team up

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Garmin and Volvo Penta just formed an alliance to create marine instrumentation including GPS navigation and communication equipment. Announced at the Miami International Boat Show the partnership will leverage Volvo’s propulsion and Garmin’s navigation expertise. They think they can start pushing out products by 2012 based on previous experience such as the GHP 10V autopilot system designed for Volvo IPS drive.

The alliance is a smart one since Volvo Penta link engines and transmissions with instruments, controls and accessories in the electronic vessel control platform, known as the EVC, and now they can now make us of Garmin’s instrumentation, navigation and communication solutions.

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Garmin and Volvo team up

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