Garmin vs Simrad on bay boat

I went with a simrad nss12 evo3 on my new boat. The menu options feel more intuitive to me than they do with Garmin. More importantly,Standard Mapping overlay maps are way better on the Simrad than the navionics maps that Garmin uses.

Nothing against Garmin but I didn’t use them simply bc I couldn’t use standard mapping cards with them. I agree that those maps are a game changer. I went with Lowrance but I’ve heard lots of great things about simrad too.

Garmin has the Louisiana marsh and bayou card which is the same satellite imagery as the standard maps so it’s a wash to me

The decision for me, at the time, is largely for the standard mapping chip, though historically I've preferred using Garmin units vs. Lowrance. Now with the newest boat we're running a Simrad EVO2 NSS12 and to me it's a whole lot like a Garmin as far as being intuitive like some have said, have all our motor functions on there as well, like it a lot.

Sorry to hear about not getting help from Garmin; I used to work for West Marine and Garmin was always one of, if not the best, to deal with for customer service.

thanks for the info!

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I went with a new Simrad unit for my bay boat recently. So far so good. Simrad GO 7 XSE

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yeah I was looking at that exact one or the Go 9 model.

Let loose some of dat coin man.