Good to hear the chat about the Garmins. Reminds us how lucky we are - a few years ago, on the way up to Sitka, we anchored in a snug little cove on the island Sitka sits on, and in the morning pulling up the anchor we found a nice little unit embedded in the mud gripping the anchor. Tried something we had heard about - rinsing the electonic gizmo in fresh water, to get out the salt, and after it soaked we dried it out and stuck in a couple of new batteries - and bingo - it lit up and even had all the charts of Alaska, western Canada, and the western US. It was compact and worked like a charm for years - only thing wrong with it, every time we popped up a chart from Wyoming it made weird moaning sounds ....
