The HDS-8 is just the right size for the spot it needed to go...the 10 appeared when measuring the space that it would be a bit crowded and possible overkill for the boat. Sure beats any of my other electronics over the years, Raytheon flasher and a paper burner that really stunk and the paper was expensive, plus it was as big as a tackle box...nice thing about the flasher I could see it from the transom of the boat thru the pilot house door about 25 feet away...it was all relative position and remembering the scale it was set on.
We sure have come along way...I didn't even have a Loran or radar, just charts and compass and depth sounder and clock plus a speed chart for rpm...did many deadreckoning in the fog to the fishing holes.
I think I am going to like this HDS-8!!
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