The good news is with all these new products coming out the competition is bound to improve the overall products and bring costs down. The bad part is trying to figure out which way to go.
I looked at the Legend Cartography website and it looks like its a pretty darn good product. I wonder how it really compares to the SM versions. SM now has three ways you can go.
1. All LA chip has the upside of the entire coast but the downside is less resolution.
2. New mega chips that cover much larger areas than even the combo chips but have the same high resolution.
3. The individual or combo chips which of course are less cost but high resolution.
I'd really like to see the Legend chart first had so I could see how far you can zoom in before it gets too fuzzy. I have all the SM cards I need but I am tired of switching the cards between my skiff and new bay boat. Thinking about one of the new mega SM cards, all in one card, or the new Legend LA card for the bay boat. I have never forgotten to switch the cards from one boat to the other. But I suspect its just a matter of time before I get on the water and then see that the card is in the other boat. Not a huge deal since all my tracks are stored on each Simrad so even with the base mapping I could get there and back.
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