Quote Originally Posted by chaunc View Post
When they make a version without GPS, i'm all over it.
I was just reading back through this thread and wanted to comment. The beauty of a side imaging unit with gps is that when you see some structure, let's just say 70' to the left of your boat, you can stop the screen and cursor over to the structure and create a waypoint. You can now navigate to that structure at whatever point in time you so choose. Without gps you would have to guess as to where 70' from your boat is and when you passed by it. I would imagine it would take you some time to find this structure. I have spotted structure 150' from my boat (with Side Imaging) and without creating a waypoint with the gps feature, it would take me forever to find it. My Garmin handheld is much more accurate then HB's gps so for the time being I use both. Sometimes my 997's gps puts me right on, other times I'm 40' off. I certainly do understand anyone that decides to wait to purchase a unit until HB fixes the gps problem but the gps feature is a must to get the most out of this product.

A lot of folks will just cruise around for an hour or so marking structure with waypoints and come back to fish them another day. You can go for miles doing nothing but creating waypoints. It really is a neat unit, here's hoping they iron out the gps issues.