Originally Posted by
scottar
Gazza, by all means keep an eye on what is about but don't even consider spending money on electronics until your boat is almost ready to hit the water. By then (if it takes a couple of years as you were initially thinking) pretty much anything around today will be out of date and worse still - out of warranty. It won't matter that you haven't used it - if the warranty is up and it stops it will cost you more money. Out of the box failures happen a lot more than people think with the cheaper products (and sometimes the expensive ones too).