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Update Your Charts Before the Season Starts Get up to $75 Back for Your Old Card
GET UP TO $75 USD BACK
Trade in your old charts
Clean up and cash in!
Get up to $75 USD back when you buy a new Navionics or Garmin card and trade in an old one.
The choice is yours
Switch to Navionics or Garmin. You can participate to the program even if you own a card from C-MAP, Fishing Hot Spots, LakeMaster, Lowrance Insight, Magellan or TrakMaps. Check GPS plotter compatibility.
Rebate is based on the product you purchase.
Rebate Amount | Navionics | Garmin |
$ 75 | Navionics+ Platinum+ HotMaps Platinum |
BlueChart® g3 BlueChart® g3 Vision LakeVü g3 LakeVü g3 Ultra |
$ 50 | Navionics+ Regions |
Note: Navionics accessory cards will NOT work in Garmin devices
How to obtain the rebate
Buy a new card
Visit your favorite authorized dealer and purchase a new Navionics or Garmin card.
Complete your rebate form
Fill out the rebate envelope from your dealer or download and print it now.
Return your old card
Be sure to include all the necessary documentation: trade-in rebate form, old card, receipt and UPC label.
TRADE IN AN ELIGIBLE CARD FROM THIS LIST:
Navionics cards: Navionics+, Navionics+ Regions, Navionics Updates, HotMaps Platinum, Platinum+, Gold, Silver, HotMaps Premium, Marine & Lakes USA. Have an old Navionics card? You may be eligible to update your charts at up to 50% off. This offer cannot be combined with the trade-in offer. Learn more.
Garmin cards: BlueChart® g2 HD, BlueChart® g2 Vision HD, LakeVü HD, LakeVü HD Ultra on SD/MSD.
Cards from other manufacturers: C-MAP: BDS, Essential, 4D, 4D Local, 4D Wide, 4D MAX, 4D MAX+, MAX N, MAX N+, MAX-N Bathy, MAX NT and MAX NT+ on SD/MSD; Fishing Hot Spots on SD, MSD and MMC; LakeMaster for Humminbird, LakeMaster ProMap for Lowrance and LakeMaster for Lowrance (newer versions); Lowrance Insight and Lowrance Insight HD on SD/MSD, Lowrance NauticPath on MMC; Magellan BlueNAV XL3; TrakMaps for Garmin on SD/MSD including the Demo Cards, TrakMaps for Lowrance.
TERMS AND CONDITIONS:
This trade-in rebate is redeemable only by residents of the U.S. and Canada and may not be combined with any other offer directly from Garmin. Garmin is not responsible for incomplete requests, loss in mail, postage due or c.o.d. receipts, or any consequential or incidental damages. Garmin reserves the right to rescind or change this offer. Rebate is paid in U.S. dollars. Recipient is responsible for any applicable taxes. Limit one trade-in rebate per purchase. All cards returned to Garmin will be verified; any found to be counterfeit will not be eligible for a rebate. Requests for multiple rebates from dealers, groups, clubs or organizations will not be honored. Purchases made through online auctions, excluding direct purchases from authorized dealers, are not eligible. eBay® purchases only valid if purchase is made from an authorized Garmin dealer. We do not accept PayPal® receipts. The product must be purchased in factory-new condition from a Garmin Authorized Dealer. Refurbished or newly overhauled products do not qualify for the rebate. Void where prohibited or otherwise restricted by law. Updates may be more economical if downloaded conveniently from the Navionics website, www.navionics.com. Garmin recommends making a copy of your receipt and completed rebate coupon for your records. Please allow 6-10 weeks to process your rebate request.
Join Us for the 30th Annual Bonita Boat Show!
30th Annual Spring Boat Show
2019 Event Details
Event: Bonita Springs Boat Show
Dates: Feb. 28 – Mar. 3, 2019
Times:
Thursday, 10AM – 6PM
Friday, 10AM – 6PM
Saturday, 10AM – 6PM
Sunday, 10AM – 5PM
Venue: Naples Fort Myers Greyhound Track
Address: 10601 Bonita Beach Rd SE, Bonita Springs, FL 34135
Raymarine Trade Up Sales Event!
Competition & Offers
Trade Up Sales Event 2019
UPGRADE YOUR ELECTRONICS AND SAVE UP TO $1,500
Choose Raymarine and save! There has never been a better time to upgrade your electronics than now.
Offer Valid January 1st through July 7th.
With the Raymarine Trade-Up Sales Event, all you have to do is choose Raymarine and start saving. Whether you are building a new electronics package or upgrading your current system, the more technology you add, the bigger your reward!
Earn a Raymarine Visa® Prepaid Card (by mail) when you purchase Raymarine Electronics during the Raymarine Trade-Up Sales Event.
- Earn $250 on your Raymarine purchase of $2,500 or more
- Earn $500 on your Raymarine purchase of $5,000 or more
- Earn $750 on your Raymarine purchase of $7,500 or more
- Earn $1,000 on your Raymarine purchase of $10,000 or more
- Earn $250 loyalty bonus if upgrading from existing Raymarine display (limit 2 loyalty bonuses per claim, must reach the minimum $2,500 rebate threshold to qualify)
RAYMARINE LOYALTY BONUS
Upgrade your existing Raymarine display and save an additional $250 per display!
*Limited to 2 loyalty bonuses per claim.
Must reach the minimum $2,500 rebate threshold to qualify
Join us for the 52nd annual Naples Boat Show Jan. 17 – 20.
Packing a Ditch Bag 101
It’s something you hope to never need. Yet, it’s smart not to head out on the water without one. Ditch bags, also called a go-bag or bail-bag, and what’s packed inside can spell the difference between life or death if you need to abandon vessel and wait for help to arrive. With this importance underscored, and because of the need for a ditch bag to be small and light enough to hoist and carry, what should you put in it? How should the contents vary by the type of boating you do? Where should you stow a ditch bag for easy access? We asked these three questions to a trio of boating safety professionals for their expert advice.
“Pack as much as practical. Pack more than you need. Redundancy is good,” says Ted Sensenbrenner, assistant director of boating safety programs for the BoatU.S. Foundation for Boating Safety and Clean Water, headquartered in Annapolis, Maryland. “The kit should include things to SIGNAL for help (EPIRB and PLB, flares, meteors, and smoke, mirror, light signals, distress light, laser flare, strobing distress light and dye markers). The kit should include things to COMMUNICATE to rescuers/would be rescuers (handheld VHF, tracking and texting devices aka Satellite Emergency Notification Device (SENDs), satellite phone, cell phone). The kit should include SURVIVAL items (this list can be extremely lengthy and personal, but survival items should include the following; food and water, medical supplies, fishing gear and rain water collection/water purifier, prescription meds/eyeglasses (if needed), documentation like passports, ID and ship’s papers, navigation equipment like a chart, handheld GPS, compass.
Some people pack really comprehensive ditch bags and some only pack the essentials, says Brian Kinsella Sr, national yachting sales manager for the Americas for Viking Life-Saving Equipment, Inc., based in Miami, Florida. “A knife, radar reflector, sunscreen, lip balm, garden gloves for flare handling and space blankets or TPAs (thermal protective aids), are items I usually recommend.”
The essential point is that a ditch bag should be personalized to suit individual needs. This can mean buying each item separately and assembling a bag from scratch. Or, buying a ready-made ditch bag, scanning the inventory included and adding additional items to customize as desired. This tailoring should also be based on whether boating trips are predominantly inshore or offshore.
If operating inshore expendable items or your one-and-done items like food, water, flares should be increased based on your cruising,” explains Timothy Hazen, the Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida-based Southeast, Gulf Coast, & Caribbean Regional Sales Manager for the Survitec Group Ltd. “For example, inshore you may carry 3 extra flares, if offshore you should consider 6. In recreational boating the USCG does a great job at outlining what we should carry. We as the boaters need to take these requirements as minimums and not items to simply pass an inspection. If the USCG requires 3 or an item there is no harm in carrying 6, there is no such thing as being “too safe” at 2 am, in 12’ seas off shore and no visibility.”
Raymarine Delivers Axiom UAV App
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Garmin Introduces Ultra High Definition Scanning Sonar
Furuno Introduces New Combo Unit
Furuno Multi-Touch Combo Machines With Built in TruEcho CHIRP Fish Finder Are Rich In Features, Unrivaled In Value
Furuno has a well-earned reputation for building the most durable and feature-rich commercial marine electronics in the industry. It’s no surprise that their new Combo units, the GP1871F and GP1971F, have taken on the sleek look-and-feel, as well as the advanced features of their award-winning NavNet TZtouch2 MFD’s.
Camas, WA, May 14, 2018 – Furuno has a well-earned reputation for building the most durable and feature-rich commercial marine electronics in the industry, and for applying those technological breakthroughs to their recreational product line. With that in mind, it’s no surprise that their new Combo units, the GP1871F and GP1971F, have taken on the sleek look-and-feel, as well as the advanced features of their award-winning NavNet TZtouch2 MFD’s.
The GP1871F and GP1971F Chart Plotters utilize full-featured C-Map 4D charts. C-Map 4D empowers you with plenty of useful data that you can overlay onto rich vector and raster charts, such as relief vectors, bathymetric layers, satellite photos, tidal streams and marine plans, significantly boosting situational awareness. Creating routes and waypoints is as simple as touch-and-go, and since the series integrates with Furuno’s NavPilot Autopilot series, navigating to your destination has never been easier. Plus you can let the Chart Plotter plan your course with its EasyRouting feature. When connected to an AIS receiver, you can see valuable AIS data on the display. C-Weather, which provides downloadable wind, wave, weather, humidity and temperature information, is another standard feature.
These Combo units also include a built-in single-band TruEcho CHIRP, as well as a conventional Fish Finder, transmitting at 300W, 600W or 1kW. Simply tell the unit which transducer you are using and it will select the appropriate Fish Finder. The TruEcho CHIRP transmits across a spectrum of frequencies, delivering an incredible amount of detail, clearly marking individual game fish and bait fish. The conventional Fish Finder includes RezBoost data processing for an ultra-crisp, high-resolution picture. Other features include ACCU-FISH fish size assessment, and the highly useful Bottom Discrimination function to help you find the most productive fishing grounds.
Radar can be overlayed onto the GP1871F and GP1971F Chart Plotter display via wireless connection to the Furuno DRS4W 1st Watch Wireless Radar. The DRS4W’s wireless configuration makes it a breeze to add the compact 19″ Radar dome to any vessel. The DRS4W can also display the Radar presentation on a connected smart phone or tablet, offering a major upgrade in safety and versatility.
With their generous 7″ and 9″ wide-aspect presentation, the all-glass, multi touch displays give you access to every feature via convenient and intuitive slide-out menus. Slide your finger down from the top of the display to select Quick Pages, including your favorite custom display modes. Slide in from the left to view customized Data Boxes. Slide up from the bottom to quickly adjust your layer settings. Finally, slide your finger in from the right to instantly access the menu functions you use the most. Everything in the menu is intuitive and contextual, so the content relates to the current display mode. You can even tap or double tab the display with two fingers to capture a screen shot or perform other customized functions!
This new generation of MFD-like Combo units from Furuno allows captains of any size vessel to take advantage of Furuno’s recent innovations, such as their Multi Touch technology, 3D Chart Plotting, TruEcho CHIRP Fish Finding, AIS, and 1st Watch Wireless Radar, all at a price that promises not to break the bank. To make this introduction even sweeter, for a limitied time, C-MAP is offering a $100 Instant Rebate on a 4D Wide chart of your choice, with the purchase of a GP1871F or GP1971F.
New Garmin AIS™ 800 Blackbox Transceiver
Help Avoid Running into Trouble on the Water
- Easy-to-use, reliable communication transmits your vessel information to other AIS receivers in your area while receiving AIS target data
- 5 watts of transmit power with Class B/SO provides faster positioning reporting than ever before¹
- Built-in GPS with connector for optional external antenna
- NMEA 2000® connectivity for easy integration with compatible chartplotters and multifunction displays
- Internal VHF antenna splitter allows VHF and AIS to share a single antenna
Increase your situational awareness and confidence on the water with the Garmin AIS 800 transceiver. It has 5 watts of transmit power and provides faster position reporting than ever before¹. It transmits your vessel information to other AIS receivers in your area while it receives their AIS target data. Garmin AIS 800 has an internal VHF antenna splitter, which allows the VHF and AIS to share a single antenna. It includes a built-in GPS (with connector for optional external antenna) and integrates seamlessly into the Garmin onboard system. The transceiver features NMEA 2000/0183 connectivity for easy integration with compatible chartplotters and multifunction displays. And it’s all packed into an easy-to-install black box unit with a small footprint.
¹When cruising above 14 knots