+Rubberhead Posted February 26, 2005 Share Posted February 26, 2005 http://www.westmarine.com/webapp/wcs/store...roductId=160900 West Marine is marketing an upgraded version of the GPSmap 76CS called the GPSmap 76CS Plus. - Dedicated navigation modes for powerboating, sailboating, automotive and off-road - Select from 24 brilliant pages for true customization - Marine logbook stores your location every 30 minutes to 8 hours - Start-up status displays settings that might impact receiver accuracy (variation, selected charts) - Easy route editing on chart: move, add or delete waypoints quickly Quote Link to comment
+jotne Posted February 26, 2005 Share Posted February 26, 2005 My guess is that they have moded the firmware and added some logos. Quote Link to comment
[MTB]_Intrepid Posted February 27, 2005 Share Posted February 27, 2005 West marine is a pretty big outfit. They must have partnered with Garmin to create this unit with the special color case and ID, and had Garmin's programmers cook up the new firmware. Clever marketing, really. Now if some really smart hardware/software haxxor could reverse engineer this thing for geocaching needs instead of marine... Quote Link to comment
peter Posted February 27, 2005 Share Posted February 27, 2005 Previously West Marine did the same thing with the eTrex Venture. They had Garmin add some marine data and relabel it as the Mariner which was only sold at West Marine. Makes sense since West Marine gets to sell a unique product instead of being in direct price competition with every internet dealer. Quote Link to comment
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