to joker someone into paying a couple hundred
dollars for an obsolete, battery hog Model 45 he maybe picked up at a tag
sale
for $4.

This unit cost $300 when I bought it new. It just sold for $75

What a sad state of affairs. If you sleep well at night, P.T.Barnum would love
you.

and it
worksjust as well now as it did when new. This is a bargain for a quality
piecethat does everthing a GPS is supposed to do, and more. Jax traded pots
andpans for a cheap eTrex so that says a lot about his acumen.

Yes, it does.

btw, the eTrex is still in production, while the 45 is so obsolete that the
manufacturer stopped making it long ago.

$75 is about $70 more than the unit is worth, to a knowledgeable sailor.

His comment
about battery life is equally uninformed. This unit typically runs20 hrs or
more on four ordinary and inexpensive AA batteries. But mostsailors just
plug the unit into the ship's battery

and that cable for that obsolete unit is *how* much?

and never worry about it.

Because they can't see the unit in the cockpit then? Unless, of course, the
boat is little as in tiny and no one really needs gps anyway.

My guess is
that Jax doesn't have a ship battery, or a boat for that matter.

HONK! Wrong answer. Try again.

His realm
is the
scullery....

Well, I do have a butane stove (excellent for a quick cup of coffee, about two
minutes for boiling water), an alcohol/sterno SeaSwing stove (found brand new
at an antique store, and to be used when the weather gets rougher), a
two-burner propane stove, another pressure cooker, a stainless steel insulated
French Press coffeemaker, frying pans, a Braun mixer/chopper, sauce pan, and
wine glasses.

And you? What do you have on your 22 foot Boston Whaler besides a couple
obsolete gps's, a lead acid battery to run them, a chartplotter, a liferaft,
two 406 EPIRBs and a frying pan with a broken handle?

Sleep well at night, do you?


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