New R-21EC

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rayzickrick

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Fluid Motion Model
C-24 C SE
Hull Identification Number
FMLT2108G314
Vessel Name
Andi Lee
Hello All,
"Andi Lee" now sits proudly at her new home In NE Minnesota. Go Vikings!
I pulled her home from Racine Wisconsin last week. Now waiting on all my
safety equipment to show up. Dealer said it was taken out for a boat show.
Also waiting on my Navionics chip for Lake Superior. Hope it shows up this
week because Isle Royale is calling.
 
Congratulations on your new Ranger. I'm sure you will enjoy many hours of fun on the water.
Cheers!

Karl
Maneo
Ranger 21EC
 
rayzickrick":2j7ppe21 said:
Hello All,
"Andi Lee" now sits proudly at her new home In NE Minnesota. Go Vikings!
I pulled her home from Racine Wisconsin last week. Now waiting on all my
safety equipment to show up. Dealer said it was taken out for a boat show.
Also waiting on my Navionics chip for Lake Superior. Hope it shows up this
week because Isle Royale is calling.
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WELCOME!! Your 21EC will be a joy to own and operate. Be safe and have fun.

/dave
 
Congratulations! Love those R21ECs. Just bought my second one.

What equipment are you running the Navionics chip on? I'm a Garmin person, used them for years. The tug I recently purchased came with Lowrance GPS and broadband radar. It had a Navionics chip for the East and NE. I bought one for the South; I live in GA. Didn't work out of the box. Found out the Lowrance manual was incorrect. It said to go menu item Map Data and change software selection to Navionics. There was no such item in the menu. I stumbled around in the menus and found a menu item called navigation where I finally found a place to change the software from Lowrance to Navionics. What I found interesting was the software setting was Lowrance when the prior owner had been using an East navionics chip. Go figure.

Hope your installation is more straight forward than mine. If not, remember my experience. You may have to look around in the menus to find what you need, if the manual is unclear.

Garmin was always plug in and go.

gene
 
Thanks Guy's,
Gene, I have "Raymarine" graph, chartplotter, radar all in one.
Not overly excited about where the dealer placed the unit.
Up high and to the left near the roof. Something to do with
interference with the compass. I feel a kink in my neck just
thinking about it. The micro chip should be here this week
and I'll let you know if I have any problems loading it.
 
I suspect the starboard windshield wiper motor will affect the compass more. I'd move the compass to some place easy to see, away from metal and electrical microwave; and, put the main instrument in front of the helm. I have a separate fishfinder/depth sounder up and in the middle above the windscreen. Don't like the location, hard on my neck. However, I have bad cervical, all seven of them. I'm tempted to get a HDS-10 Lowrance unit; my HDS-7 is really too small to run split screen. With the HDS-10 (or 12) I could run split screen with sonar and radar overlaid on GPS. Then I could avoid the fishfinder/depth sound unit. I need reading glasses to see my present unit split screen.
 
rt11002003":2pb9fc0k said:
I suspect the starboard windshield wiper motor will affect the compass more. I'd move the compass to some place easy to see, away from metal and electrical microwave; and, put the main instrument in front of the helm. I have a separate fishfinder/depth sounder up and in the middle above the windscreen. Don't like the location, hard on my neck. However, I have bad cervical, all seven of them. I'm tempted to get a HDS-10 Lowrance unit; my HDS-7 is really too small to run split screen. With the HDS-10 (or 12) I could run split screen with sonar and radar overlaid on GPS. Then I could avoid the fishfinder/depth sound unit. I need reading glasses to see my present unit split screen.
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Hello Gene,

Do you figure there is room to mount a HDS10 or 12 on the dash directly above steering wheel? I guess that would minimize the stress on your bad cervicals. I like the idea of a bigger screen...

/dave
 
I think the HDS-10 will fit easily where the HDS-7 is. The larger 12 inch unit might not. I need to do some measuring.

gene
 
rt11002003":1rgozudg said:
Congratulations! Love those R21ECs. Just bought my second one.

What equipment are you running the Navionics chip on? I'm a Garmin person, used them for years. The tug I recently purchased came with Lowrance GPS and broadband radar. It had a Navionics chip for the East and NE. I bought one for the South; I live in GA. Didn't work out of the box. Found out the Lowrance manual was incorrect. It said to go menu item Map Data and change software selection to Navionics. There was no such item in the menu. I stumbled around in the menus and found a menu item called navigation where I finally found a place to change the software from Lowrance to Navionics. What I found interesting was the software setting was Lowrance when the prior owner had been using an East navionics chip. Go figure.

Hope your installation is more straight forward than mine. If not, remember my experience. You may have to look around in the menus to find what you need, if the manual is unclear.

Garmin was always plug in and go.

gene
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Gene, The chip install was painless. Just plug and play. I was a bit concerned when the new chip showed up. I did not know the Micro chip was inside the larger chip.
:lol:
 
Glad to hear it was painless. m/b Raymarine has their act together better than Lowrance.

gene
 
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