Garmin GPSMap 76 Handheld GPS Navigator
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All other marine handheld GPS units pale when compared to the GPSMAP 76C and GPSMAP 76CS—literally. The latest color-display technology gives both units the brightest, sunlight-readable displays available. And with brand-new state-of-the-art receivers and powerful microprocessors, these units will give you a quick and steady fix. Both the GPSMAP 76C and GPSMAP 76CS have the familiar GPS 76-family keypads and styling, with 115 MB of memory, an Ame... » full description
All other marine handheld GPS units pale when compared to the GPSMAP 76C and GPSMAP 76CS—literally. The latest color-display technology gives both units the brightest, sunlight-readable displays available. And with brand-new state-of-the-art receivers and powerful microprocessors, these units will give you a quick and steady fix. Both the GPSMAP 76C and GPSMAP 76CS have the familiar GPS 76-family keypads and styling, with 115 MB of memory, an Americas Autoroute basemap, and a Marine Point database. Fast USB connectivity makes loading charts and maps quick and easy, while navigation instructions can be shared with repeaters, plotters, and autopilots using NMEA protocols through the dedicated serial port. They’re waterproof and fully compatible with MapSource products like BlueChart®, U.S. Topo 24K, and City Select® (which provides detailed streets for turn-by-turn guidance). « short desciption
User Reviews
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Review Date: 2009-11-24
The maps are nice, but the user interface is lacking. We travel all over Michigan and visit many lakes and this unit works great after loading the necessary maps, to see where you are. The only problem is when we are looking for a set of GPS coordintes, it is nice to see the compass and the coordinates on the same screen, like the older garmin 12 was able to do. With this unit you cannot get both on the same screen. The compass is on one screen, and you position is on another. If you are looking for an exact spot, it is nice to see your coordintes change and the N S E W heading as you are moving, otherwise you have to guess which way is up, so to speak, especially when you are in a boat moving around quite a bit.
User: C. Taricska
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Summary: Nice screen and maps, but missing a few features
Helpful Votes: 0
Total Votes: 0
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Review Date: 2009-10-28
Bought this as a back up for a boat. Work good, sometimes seems to be off by more than 100 feet, even when located 5 or more satelites.
Good battery life, easy to navigate menus.
Manufacturer should provide GPS-to-USB connector, not only to-Serial, which is not common these days, especially on laptops.
Once connected to PC and software installed, easy to back up and load maps and routes.
User: B. Okrajek
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Summary: Great back up GPS
Helpful Votes: 0
Total Votes: 0
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Review Date: 2009-09-06
We use this GPS on our SeaDoo GTX, and are very satisfield with its performance out on the water. We use the default maps which came with the unit.
This product works well, but the default maps are not detailed and key roads are missing and are often mislabelled. Using this product to navigate roads would be awful. However, navigation by water is a little better. Several buoys and markers are correct and are in the expected positions on the map. The features which are the most helpful are 1) the breadcrumb trail which is automatically generated and 2) the backlight LCD screen which was a HUGE help to us on a recent trip (from Pt Judith, RI to Block Island, RI) where we got caught out at sea at dusk. This GPS allowed us to follow our earlier-marked trail, so that even though we were out on the ocean and couldn't see very far, we just followed our trail by GPS and navigated home safely. It's also easy to mark points of interest which is critical to finding your way back to the boat ramp in an unfamiliar place!
The item is totally waterproof, and for novice users (like us!), it took about 20 minutes to read through the manual and get up to speed on the key features. It is easy to mark waypoints and good for displaying speeds, time, and the direction we're headed. The item also clearly displays latitude and longitude, so if we had engine problems out on the water, i'm confident we could radio in our position from the GPS and get picked up rather easily.
I wish the screen was a little more resolute. We often have to stop the jetski to take a look at this GPS to figure out where we are and where we are headed, but it's a small price to pay for having the piece of mind out on the water.
User: Andrew C. Flick
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Summary: excellent for jetski/small boat; shop elsewhere for roadmaps
Helpful Votes: 1
Total Votes: 1
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Review Date: 2009-05-13
The 76 is what I thought it would be. Easy to learn how to use. Connects with my laptop for marine charts.
Would buy again
User: James Cockrum
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Summary: Garmin GPS Map 76
Helpful Votes: 1
Total Votes: 1
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Review Date: 2009-03-22
This is a replacement for me for my old Garmin Map, bought when the
technology was fairly new, but stolen from me. It has a larger map page, great for my old eyes. I had used my old one in the Mojave Desert on cloudy days, followed my "breadcrumb" trail back, and never got lost.
Also did a bit of geocaching -- fun!
A great adjunct for the State topo map books, and very useful on an RV
trip across the USA. Haven't used all the new technology in it, yet, but
look forward to it.
User: Rosemary C. Overson
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Summary: Garmin GPS 76
Helpful Votes: 0
Total Votes: 0
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Editorial Reviews
About the size of a small, flat calculator, the Garmin GPSMAP 76 is a 12-parallel-channel, WAAS-enabled global positioning system GPS receiver that will go anywhere. Even with its compact style, this GPS unit boasts an extra-large display for showing more map data and the same power you've come to expect from Garmin handhelds--even while operating for up to 16 hours on two AA batteries.The GPSMAP 76 features 500 waypoints (10 nearest, 10 proximity), 50 reversible routes with up to 50 points each, an automatic track log, and alarms for anchor drag, approach and arrival, off course, proximity waypoint, shallow water, and deep water.
The GPSMAP 76 is also compatible with Garmin's line of downloadable MapSource CD-ROMs and will store 8 MB of downloaded map detail. Always know just where you're going with preloaded maps of rivers, lakes, worldwide cities, navaids, and tide data. With a detailed base map database, users also have the ability to look up address and telephone number information for nearby services and points of interest as well as find map detail for cities, highways, and interstates.
Designed with all types of users in mind, this unit will take you from the car to the hiking trail and beach without missing a beat. This quality Garmin product comes with a one-year limited warranty.
Product Details
- WAAS enabled Global positioning system (GPS) receiver continuously tracks and uses up to 12 satellites
- Preloaded maps of rivers, lakes, worldwide cities, navaids, and tide data
- Trip computer with current/average speed, timer, and trip distance
- Programmable alarms and tables; 500 waypoints
- 8 MB memory for downloading data from optional Garmin MapSource CD-ROMs
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