With nüvi 205W‘s widescreen display, you’ll always get the big picture…nüvi 205W comes preloaded with City Navigator® NT map data for the contiguous U.S…Like the rest of the nüvi 2×5-series, nüvi 205W sports a sleek, slim design and fits comfortably in your pocket or purse…nüvi 205W includes many travel tools including JPEG pictures, this Garmin GPS is a very good product.

Manufacturer’s Description (July 11, 2008)
Easy to learn and simple to use, the waterproof Garmin Oregon 300 features a high-sensitivity GPS receiver and preloaded worldwide basemap with shaded relief for incredibly detailed map presentation on the unit. It also offers a high-resolution, color 3-inch touchscreen that reacts as you tap or drag through menus and options. With its high-sensitivity, WAAS-enabled GPS receiver and HotFix satellite prediction, Oregon 200 locates your position quickly and precisely and maintains its GPS location even in heavy cover and deep canyons. It’s also equipped with a barometric altimeter and electronic compass, and it’s compatible with Garmin’s heart-rate monitors and speed/cadence sensors.

The Garmin Oregon 300.

The Oregon 300 provides a basemap that can be easily supplemented with additional mapping or charts for your adventures on land or at sea. The device lets you customize five profiles–automotive, marine, recreation, fitness or geocaching–making the most beneficial features for each activity the easiest to access through quick shortcuts. The tough, 3-inch color touchscreen display is easy to read even in direct sunlight, and the Oregon’s easy-to-use interface means you’ll spend more time enjoying the outdoors and less time searching for information with a portable marine GPS.

It also plays well with others, allowing for wireless exchange of tracks, waypoints and geocaches between other Oregon units and Garmin Colorado models.

This unit has a built-in electronic compass that provides bearing information even while you’re standing still, and its barometric altimeter tracks changes in pressure to pinpoint your precise altitude. You can even use the altimeter to plot barometric pressure over time, which can help you keep an eye on changing weather conditions.

Conveniently plug in optional preloaded microSD memory cards for all your outdoor activities on land or water. The card slot is located inside the waterproof battery compartment, so you don’t have to worry about getting it wet. Just insert an optional Garmin MapSource card with detailed street maps, and the Oregon provides turn-by-turn directions to your destination. Add optional topographic maps to take advantage of the Oregon’s 3D map view which gives you a better perspective of your elevation. And with optional BlueChart g2 Vision maps, you’ll get everything you need for a great day on the water including depth contours, navaids and harbors.

Garmin’s HotFix capability automatically calculates and stores satellite locations, greatly reducing satellite acquisition time so that you can turn the unit on and get going. Geocaching is even easier with the Oregon, which quickly downloads online information for every cache, such as location, terrain, difficulty, hints and description, so that you don’t have to tote printouts with you.

Maximum Strength
Composites: In the same way as today’s Formula 1 cars are made of composites and carbon fiber materials to achieve maximum strength with minimum weight. ProPulse blades are made of composites which are stronger and 40% lighter than aluminum boat propellers.

ProPulse blades are not affected by corrosion or pitting as aluminium propellers are, and retain their pristine finish even after several years’ use.

Optimum performance
Adjustable pitch: In just a few minutes you can adjust the pitch and set your boat up for optimum performance in every situation (e.g. watersking, heavy or light loads..)

With the right pitch (the pitch which provides the rpm recommended by the engine makers at full throttle) you achieve faster speeds, lower fuel consumption and better overall handling.

Maximum economy
Replaceable blades: After running aground it’s easy to change the damaged blades on the spot and continue your trip without delay, at lower cost than repairing or buying a new propeller.

While some people don’t recognize this, on most bodies of water, it’s illegal for children and sometimes adults to not wear a life jacket while on a boat.  In truth, there’s no real reason not to wear a life jacket when boating other than the occasional discomfort.  But the discomfort is offset by the safety the life jacket provides.  For children, who aren’t strong swimmers, a life jacket is essential and in a lot of place, it’s illegal for children under a certain age to be on a boat without a life jacket. 

Adults should also wear a life jacket because we never know when we might hit our head falling off the boat, or become incapacitated in a manner that prevents us from swimming. Amongst life jackets, it’s important to choose a reliable life jacket that also provides comfort to the wearer.  A Mustang life jacket for example is an excellent life jacket that provides reliability and comfort.  Adults might even consider a Mustang automatic inflatable jacket. 

Trim tabs work exactly the same way as the control surfaces on an airplane. As you know, there are three axes affecting the motion of your boat as you travel through the water: Yaw, Pitch and Roll.

Trim tabs have little effect on the yaw axis, because yaw is controlled by the rudder or the side to side movement of the outdrive. Where they are effective is in the roll axis, to eliminate or reduce listing or heeling, especially if your boat has a deep “V” hull, and in the pitch axis, to raise or lower your bow.

The port and starboard Bennett trim tabs act independently. It is a simple thing to adjust them to lift the down side of the boat and compensate for the three or four hundred kilos of weight caused by your passengers all wanting to be on the same side. To do this, lower the down side tab. The water pressing against the tab as you move will lift that side of the boat (around the roll axis) and eliminate your list. As your passengers move about, you can continue to adjust the tabs to compensate for the redistribution of weight. You must understand though, the trim tabs will have less effect at slower speed than at high speed. You can understand this by a simple experiment. Next time you are in your car put your hand out of the window at an angle to the slipstream. Note that when you drive slowly, the wind has little effect on your hand but as you speed up, the wind will eventually drive your hand up and back. Now remember, water is much more dense than air so prudence in applying trim is recommended.

Where most operators initially use trim is in the pitch axis, getting their boats to the plane mode as quickly as possible. It is then easy to maintain the boat’s most economical cruising speed by tab adjustment. This is accomplished using the “Bow Down“ control. This lowers both tabs and the force of the water against them will push the stern up consequently lowering the bow (around the pitch axis).  Again, smooth rather than aggressive application is recommended to prevent pitch down of the bow. Trim may also be used in the pitch axis to keep the bow up to avoid taking seas over the bow if the water is rough. Naturally you would use the “Bow Up” control to do this.

I mentioned that trim tabs have little effect in the yaw axis, but they do have some. I’m sure you can readily understand that if you have only one of the tabs hanging out, besides lifting that side of the boat it will also cause a certain amount of drag. This will have the effect of slowing that side of the boat causing the bow to rotate about the yaw axis and turning the boat to that side. The rudder or out-drive are usually adjusted slightly to compensate.

Using trim tabs is much like riding a bicycle. You learn to do it by feel. Your knot meter will tell you when you have trimmed for best speed at any throttle setting and your common sense will help you adjust trim to sea conditions and weight distribution. I am positive that in gaining experience you will soon amaze your friends with your skills in boat handling and trim.

Capt. Pat

You may not be familiar with them, but you’ve probably experienced the problems that trim tabs solve for boaters all over the world. After using Bennett systems for years – and discovering just how durable and serviceable they can be – our customers can’t imagine boating without them.

Do These Conditions Sound Familiar?
• As your boat slows from maximum speed, it begins to settle at the stern or “squat,” creating an inefficient, untrimmed condition. At this attitude you use more fuel to drive the boat.

• As the boat pushes forward, it creates a “hill of water.” In this bow-high position, visibility is limited and the hull bottom is pounded. Also because of significant hull drag and extreme prop angle, fuel economy is poor.

• Uneven weight distribution makes your boat harder to handle, even harder to get up on plane, and it causes your boat to list to one side. Your passengers complain when you tell them to move from one side to the other.

As a boater you know that no two boating days are ever alike thanks to ever-changing weight, weather and water conditions. Bennett Trim Tabs are designed to adjust for these changing conditions and provide lift in order to give you the best possible running attitude.

Whether you want to rent or buy a boat, over a dozen studies have shown that being with family and friends, relaxing and being outdoors and close to nature are the primary reasons people spend time on the water. Recreation with family doesn’t have to mean spending a fortune on a theme park vacation in order to have an experience that everyone will enjoy. Should you decide to buy a boat; the monthly payments can often be less than $200, which is well worth the improvement in quality of life.

Boating is about Family

Work. School. Music lessons. Sports practice. Ever feel like your family is being pulled in a million different directions? Bring them back together with recreational boating.

Time spent on a boat is quality time. Whether you’re fishing, swimming, tubing or just cruising along taking in the scenery, you’re having fun boating together. You’re not waiting in long lines, under the hot sun, bickering about what ride to go on next.

Out on the water there are no distractions. You can focus on each other. You can have conversations. Share stories. Laugh. Reconnect and create memories that will last a lifetime.

Life really is better on a boat.

Boating Lets You Relax

It’s hard not to relax when you’re on a boat. Out on the water there are no faxes. No computers. No interruptions. There is the open water. The fresh air. The sun warming your face. And a sense of freedom and adventure you can’t find anywhere else.

Whether looking for blissful, deadline-free days or pulse-quickening adventures, you can find them with recreational boating. After all, you’re the captain when you buy your own boat. The only rules are the ones that you make. And you’re free to break those.

With a boat, great getaways and destinations are just a weekend away. You may be just a few miles from home, but it feels like you’re a million miles away from the hustle and bustle of your daily routine.

Boating fun means finding the freedom to be your best even when you are using inflatable sport equipment.

You’ll never catch your limit of fun

Buy a boat, and you’ll never catch your limit of boating fun. There are always new places to explore. Bigger fish to catch. Friends to be found. And new memories to be made and having lots of fun on inflatable sport equipment.

Reeling in the big one, catching a wave off the board or just taking in the scenery, after a full day of boating fun on the water, it’s easy to remember why it’s called the “Great Outdoors

Keep the party going on your boat deck with this single Boss Audio MRWT69 6 x 9-inch four-way marine speaker with an optimized enclosure to keep it protected from wind and surf. It also offers a waketower design, enabling it to be hung from above. Featuring a 6 x 9 inch oblong design, these speakers offer an 80-ounce magnet structure, metallic injection cone material, 1.5-inch aluminum voice coil, and dual 1-inch mylar dome tweeters for clear highs and maximum peak power handling. They can handle up to 550 watts of peak power, and they come with a durable black-and-silver metal cover.