Hey Everyone,
Recent purchased my first boat (98 Hydroports 171) and am pretty unfamiliar with GPS/Sounders ect. It came with a HDS5 Gen 2 on the helm mated to a shoot-thru that was just plopped into the bow storage area unmounted.
I'm looking at picking up a HDS8 Gen 2 locally for $500(CAD) and putting it on the helm mated to a transom mounted skimmer transducer(to take advantage of the side imaging), then moving the HDS5 to the bow and running a TM mount transducer on it.
I understand I can link the two via ethernet to share waypoints and transducers.
The boat will be used for relatively shallow water bass angling.
Questions I have:
- Will the HDS units be sufficient for what I'll be doing?
- Is $500CAD too much for a used HDS8 Gen 2?
- Do I have better options available?
- Can I still get Navionics(great lakes, ontario) chips for these units? (My biggest fear as a new boater is running shallow at speed)
Thanks BBC!!
Kyle