![]() Use any SD card – you don’t have to buy anything special for this feature to work. Largest number of compatible chartplotter devices, and largest number of capable transducers to create Quickdraw maps with.You can share it with your buddy, or keep that fishin’ hole to yourself! This is like a digital camera – you get the best picture right on screen. This is not an antiquated process, like sending your film in to be developed. See where you’ve been, see where you’ve missed – you can visually see all of it immediately on screen. Free software that provides instant results which appear on your chartplotter screen as you pilot your boat with Quickdraw Contours turned on.Here are three of the many reasons why you need to forget about your grandpa’s way of doing things and start using Garmin Quickdraw Contours: For those of you purchasing new echoMAP CHIRP units, the software will already be built-in. In early 2016, those of you who already own compatible Garmin units (existing echoMAP series and GPSMAP 5×7/7×1/8×0/10×0/7400/7600/8000) will be able to download a free software update that includes Quickdraw Contours, which lets you quickly create maps of your own lake and even enhance existing maps. Garmin is changing the game once again with yet another invaluable tool to help you spend less time searching and more time catching – Quickdraw Contours. I would have listed some of the prices, which seem good, and other features, but I’m headed out the door to Raymarine and Navico demos, including StructureScan 3D.If you haven’t jumped on the Garmin bandwagon yet, the time is now. ![]() ![]() Garmin is also introducing a slew of its own transducers, including the GT52HW-TM seen above showing what it can do with “high-band 150-240kHz CHIRP traditional, 455/800 kHz CHIRP DownVü and CHIRP SideVü.” And they’ve added full CHIRP to the echoMap line, which will also be able to do Quickdraw charting and/or work with Panoptix. “Everyone has their own definition of CHIRP when it comes to this level of fishfinding,” he tried to say diplomatically, but Garmin’s is “more like Airmar’s” with transmissions that cover full ranges like 90-120 kHz. ![]() It will only do the LiveVu, not the 3D mode (that needs a big screen anyway), but marine product manager David Dunn - who showed off the original Panoptix, SideVu, and the VirbXE integration at NMEA - told me that PS21 testing is looking very good.ĭunn is also excited about the “full CHIRP” that Garmin is putting in the new value oriented Striker fishfinder series, which also include GPS for waypoint tracking (not charting). What’s not clear yet is how Quickdraw users will be able to share their charting with other users or with Garmin, but I know they’re working on it and trust that the process will be easy when offered.Īnd yes, Panoptix users will be able to collect Quickdraw data almost as if they had a real cartographer’s multibeam sonar, and, what’s more, Garmin will soon offer a new smaller and less expensive PS21 trolling motor transducer. You can also add point of interest information to your Quickdraw chart, set depth range colors and other custom niceties (as illustrated by the screenshots I wish Garmin would make larger). Quickdraw is instantaneous, like Live SonarCharts on the Navionics app (or Humminbird’s Autochart Live). With Navionics SonarCharts for any marine display or Navico’s Insight Genesis, you have to submit your collected soundings and later download the processed results before you can see them on your MFD. Quickdraw is no surprise given the tussle over Navionics SonarCharts for Garmin, but naturally Garmin added some special sauce… Yup, you’re going to be able to easily collect soundings as you cruise, sail or fish and, if you want, you can watch the resulting high def sonar chart materialize in your wake, as suggested above. Garmin put up a Marine 2016 site this morning and one thing many current Garmin owners will be excited about is the Quickdraw Contours sonar charting that will come to many current Garmin displays in January.
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