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New Garmin/Navionics Upgrades

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Garmin® adds new BlueChart® g3 and LakeVü g3 with Navionics cartography to its popular ECHOMAP Plus series

OLATHE, Kan./January 8, 2019/Business Wire – Garmin International, Inc., a unit of Garmin Ltd. (NASDAQ:GRMN), today announced that its popular line of ECHOMAP™ Plus sonar combination units will now include its new BlueChart g3 and LakeVü g3 cartography products built-in for coastal and inland boating and fishing. The new g3 charts and maps blend the best of both Garmin and Navionics content together for the first time to deliver unparalleled coverage and detail. The Garmin ECHOMAP Plus series is available in a range of display sizes, and sold both with and without transducers, to accommodate nearly every angler and budget.

“The ECHOMAP Plus is one of our best-selling product lines and we’re pleased to bring our new BlueChart g3 and LakeVü g3 cartography with Navionics content built-in to this series for both new and existing customers,” said Dan Bartel, Garmin worldwide vice president of consumer sales. “Garmin’s g3 products combines the best content from both Garmin and Navionics to provide the highest quality detail and coverage available to mariners today.”

The new Garmin g3 cartography brings unrivaled detail and convenience to users with navigational aids, spot soundings, depth contours, tides and currents, artificial reefs and fish attractors, and detailed harbors and marinas. It offers seamless chart presentation with up to 1-foot fishing contours that provide a more accurate depiction of bottom structure for improved fishing charts and enhanced detail in canals, marinas and port plans. New customers will benefit from this data built-in to the ECHOMAP Plus series. Existing ECHOMAP Plus customers can utilize Garmin’s New Chart Guarantee to receive a free update to the new g3 cartography. If a customer has already taken advantage of the free update via their New Chart Guarantee, BlueChart g3 and LakeVü g3 accessory cards and downloads are available to purchase. Learn more at garmin.com/maps.

For even more detailed data and Auto Guidance1 technology, BlueChart g3 Vision and LakeVü g3 Ultra accessory cards are also available. Auto Guidance instantly searches through relevant charts to create a suggested route based upon the user’s desired depth and overhead clearance. In addition, BlueChart g3 Vision also offers high-resolution satellite imagery that provides the user with a realistic view of their surroundings. Unique 3-D views, including MarinerEye and FishEye, provide additional perspective both above and below the water line, and crystal-clear aerial photography shows exceptional detail of many ports, harbors and marinas, which is especially useful when entering unfamiliar ports. For inland customers, LakeVü g3 Ultra includes maps of more than 17,000 lakes with up to 1-foot contours. Of those, over 150 are Garmin Elite surveyed lakes with high-resolution satellite imagery, multi-beam sonar views shore-to-shore, side scan photos and photos of notable spots above the water too. LakeVü g3 Ultra also includes high-resolution relief shading that adds visual depth to the 2-D map making it easier to interpret contours, Dynamic Lake Level that allows the user to adjust their maps at the lake’s current water levels, and more.

For crystal-clear scanning of fish and structure, the ECHOMAP Plus series offers built-in CHIRP traditional sonar and CHIRP ClearVü™ and SideVü scanning sonar capabilities, and the bundled versions now include a Garmin GT transducer with a dedicated down element for increased ClearVü depth performance of 500 feet. Instead of just sending one single frequency, CHIRP sends a continuous sweep of frequencies and interprets them individually upon their return, creating crisper fish arches with better target separation. For anglers who want to see objects and structure below the boat, ClearVü provides a nearly photographic view with excellent resolution and target separation in both freshwater and saltwater. The ECHOMAP Plus “sv” models also add SideVü scanning for customers who want to see what’s located on both sides of the boat. All 7- and 9-inch Plus units provide support for all Garmin Panoptix™ all-seeing sonar transducers, including Panoptix LiveScope™, so anglers can see real-time sonar imagery at video-like speed.

The updated ECHOMAP Plus series will be available starting Jan. 11, 2019, with suggested retail prices ranging from $199.99 to $1099.99. For more information, visit garmin.com/marine.

Garmin is the world’s leading marine electronics manufacturer2 and was recently named Manufacturer of the Year for the fourth consecutive year by the NMEA, an honor given to the most recognized marine electronics company for support of products in the field. Garmin’s portfolio includes some of the industry’s most sophisticated chartplotters and touchscreen multifunction displays, sonar technology, high-definition radar, autopilots, high-resolution mapping, sailing instrumentation, audio, entertainment and other products and services that are known for innovation, reliability, and ease-of-use. Other Garmin marine brands include FUSION Entertainment, Navionics, a premier supplier of electronic navigation charts, and EmpirBus.

For decades, Garmin has pioneered new GPS navigation and wireless devices and applications that are designed for people who live an active lifestyle. Garmin serves five primary markets, including automotive, aviation, fitness, marine, and outdoor recreation. For more information, visit Garmin's virtual pressroom at garmin.com/newsroom, contact the Media Relations department at 913-397-8200, or follow us at facebook.com/garmin, twitter.com/garmin, instagram.com/garmin or youtube.com/garmin.
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Thanks!
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Curious to see how the imagery compares to Florida Marine Tracks. Garmin has to be taking a hit with a lot of inshore guys making the switch to Simrad/Lowrance in order to run FMT.
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Squirm88 wrote:Curious to see how the imagery compares to Florida Marine Tracks. Garmin has to be taking a hit with a lot of inshore guys making the switch to Simrad/Lowrance in order to run FMT.
Exactly what I was thinking. I’m about to upgrade my electronics, and I really like the fmt. So was going to stay w Lowrance or go to Simrad
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I wish FMT was Garmin compatible, that being said, I'll prolly get the G3 chip when it's available
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Garmin just announced this as the Miami International Boat Show opens...

Garmin adds high-res relief shading to its premium BlueChart g3 Vision and LakeVu g3 Ultra; entire line of new g3 products to be available Feb. 27

Garmin’s exclusive BlueChart g3 Vision and LakeVu g3 Ultra cartography products now include high-resolution relief shading for coastal and inland fishing and boating that brings an entirely new level of detail to the ocean floor and lake bottom. Garmin’s high-resolution relief shading combines color and shadow to give mariners an easy-to-interpret, clearer view of bottom structure than contour lines alone. It’s available with coverage for U.S. coastal waters – east coast, west coast and Gulf of Mexico – along with more than 150 Garmin-surveyed lakes and will vary in price from $249.99 to $349.99. High-resolution relief shading will be available beginning in Q2 2019.

The full line of Garmin’s new BlueChart g3 and LakeVü g3 cartography that blend the best of both Garmin and Navionics content together for the first time to deliver unparalleled coverage and detail, will be available for purchase and download beginning Feb. 27, 2019, and have already shipped out pre-loaded into the new GPSMAP 8600/8600xsv series. The new BlueChart g3 charts and LakeVü g3 maps are also the first preloaded cartography to offer built-in Auto Guidance, a technology that searches through relevant charts to create a suggested route based upon the user’s desired depth and overhead clearance.
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