Thales’ navigation business, global provider of Magellan GPS products for outdoor and vehicle navigation, announced today the launch of Magellan MapSend BlueNav XL3 North America, a new mapping solution for saltwater and major navigable inland waterways. Magellan MapSend BlueNav XL3 delivers advanced marine cartography for GPS handhelds including information on tides, currents, depth contours, navaids, port services and more. The software uses genuine Navionics Gold XL3 charts to provide three times the coverage of XL charts for an outstanding value at just US$199.99 each. Each of the 18 regions, sold separately, comes ready to use as a preloaded secure digital (SD) memory card. Magellan MapSend BlueNav XL3 instantly expands the functionality of SD card-compatible Magellan GPS receivers like the Magellan eXplorist(TM) XL, which boasts the largest color screen on a rugged handheld GPS. Together, the eXplorist XL and MapSend BlueNav XL3 provide mariners with a new level of navigation ease to enhance the enjoyment and safety of every boating adventure.

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Garmin today announced its new lineup of 2006 fishfinders, packed with features that will excite both the weekend inland angler and the serious offshore salt water fisherman.
A number of new features come standard on all new Garmin fishfinders. To help freshwater anglers better pinpoint fish, Garmin now offers Ultrascroll™, which allows boaters to get a much faster refresh rate on their sonar display. The new line of units also have improved performance in shallow water – as little as a foot deep – that makes it easier to determine depth, structure, and fish targets. Auto gain, as well as user adjustable gain, is also standard on all of Garmin’s new fishfinders.

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GPSNavX™ is the very affordable solution for the boater that wants to take the Mac aboard for real-time display of position on full color marine raster BSB and Softcharts. Plug your GPS into your Mac and watch as your boat moves along in real-time, plotting a track behind the boat and logging your historic position on a digital chart.

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The Tracker 5380 is the smallest chartplotter in the range and matches both the Fish 4350 and Fish 4380 small colour fishfinder systems.

Navman 5380 Tracker (available in September-October) combines all the features you expect from Navman. An easy to use, 3.8 inch daylight viewable colour screen, with NT+ and NT Max C-Map cartography. Tracker 5380 is available with external or integrated GPS antenna.

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