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Posted: **May 9th, 2007, 10:15 pm**

Can anyone help me with which hand held unit is the best for the money?

GPS hand held units only?

Thanks

Posted: **May 9th, 2007, 10:43 pm**

If you want a good cheap GPS a Garmin 72 is hard to beat. Waterproof, floats, gives you the tides and points toward the house for about $125.00.

Posted: **May 10th, 2007, 7:57 am**

GPS72 OR GPSMAP72

Posted: **May 10th, 2007, 2:51 pm**

I would NOT recommend Lowrance I Finder-Go.

Posted: **May 10th, 2007, 3:52 pm**

can't be Garmin. the 72 is nice.

Posted: **May 10th, 2007, 5:14 pm**

Soccerdad wrote:I would NOT recommend Lowrance I Finder-Go.

Ditto, I got one free as a promo and its a piece of crap. Takes 15-20 mins. to fix

Posted: **May 10th, 2007, 5:32 pm**

We have a GPS76, works good but I would recommend getting the 76Map if you can afford it, to me it would be worth it, we upgraded to a fixed unit with map and it makes some things easier and nicer. But the 76 did a good job while we used it.

Posted: **May 10th, 2007, 7:26 pm**

Ive got the Garmin 76 map and love it. Bought the blue charts ti go with it. Around $300 for all.

Posted: **May 10th, 2007, 9:00 pm**

I have the Garmin GPSMap76. I got it several years ago and it has been a great piece of gear all over the world, but if I were going to get a new one I would get one of the higher end models of the Map76.

Posted: **May 15th, 2007, 9:14 pm**

Garmin GPS76MAP. They dropped way down in price...I used to say the 76 but now the MAP is only about $20 more.
-Chris

Posted: **May 15th, 2007, 9:22 pm**

Lowrance Ifinder H2OC. I say this because it is a better unit. Bigger screen than map76, much cheaper than map76C, better basemap, and it's easy to use. I had a Garmin map76 for years and much prefer my Lowrance Ifinder H2OC.

Nathan