Thread: humminbird or lowrance

first of all hello i have been wondering around here for a while prolly a year and i dont say much but i have learned alot. Im getting a new boat and i was just wondering what all of yall thought. my boat i have now is all lowrance. but the hummingbird is stuck in my head give me some likes and dislikes if it isnt much trouble. thanks jonathan

If you want SI, HB is the only game in town (at present).

As far as normal display, Lowance is best IMHO.

Tom

I like Lowrance, probably because I have too much money invested to change. The color units are the way to go. Their GPS has always been spot on everytime, always less than 10'.

I had the Lowrance X510 and 5200 Globalmap. I still have the globalmap nice unit. The x510c was junk in shallow water locking up and freezing all the time. I got rid of it after several software changes through Lowrance. I now run a Vexilar Edge far better graph than Lowrance. I would go with Humminbird in sonar and Lowrance or Garmin in GPS.
Vexilar is great but You pay dearly for it. I did and I`m happy.

but the boat im trying to buy is 4 months old and has humminbird electronics but before i sold my old boat i took my 520s off of it so im gonna have both i just wondered if i should swat them now or try the hummin bird the boat has 987s on it any exsperience with these units

No I don`t have any experience with the Humminbirds but I would say now they are as good if not better than Lowrance. My experience with the new Lowrance sonar was awful. I`d stick with Humminbird now days, five years ago I would have gone with Lowrance.

I have a Humminbird 797, and a Lowrance X-20, both are great units. I like the sonar of the Lowrance, when it comes to using my navionics map and the gps the Humminbird is far better and alot more user friendly than the Lowrance.