Garmin GPSMAP Chartplotters

[Grumpy]

Has anyone else bought the newer version of Garmin Chartplotters? I am referring to the GPSMAP 420, 430, 440, & 450 series. I have the GPSMAP 430, which comes pre-load with 5300 topo maps for all of the United States. Three hundred of the maps are supposed to be einhanced detail. You can get more that are 3-D and other additions. You can also transfer MAPSOURCE Lake Map to a SD Card and use them in instead of the pre-loaded maps.

I have only been on the water with it once at Green River Lake and not a long time there. It didn't seem to me that the pre-loaded map had a lot of topo detail, mostly the shoreline, the channel ans a few depth lines. I tried the SD card loaded from MAPSOURCE and it appeared to give more detail.

Honestly, I haven;t used it enough to be sure of anything, but my question is has anyone else had any good or bad experience with these Chartplotters? On the plus side, I noticed that the list of pre-loaded maps incluses Ceder Creek and I am anxious to try that.

Comments please,

Grumpy

[Grumpy]

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[Rowdy]

I had my 430 out today and last thursday,I didnot get the mapcard but liked the basemap for Nolin,It is a better map then was in my old loreance 100 hand held!!

It seems to be on the money as far as returning to waypoints, I hope I spent 2 days hand loading Ky Lake From Hydrofax CD!!!
Good Luck
Rowdy