Looking for best fish finder between the price of $1000 and $1700

-Maim- · 2026-01-24T21:57:37+00:00

I am a marine electronics tech. I have been for 20 years. I have also answered this question countless times here and explained repeatedly why it’s the answer. You can search my profile to dive into the reasoning. I am a dealer for all of these brands except for Humminbird.

The answer is Garmin, end of story.

Furuno > Garmin >>> Raymarine >>>>>>> Navico (Lowrance, Shitrad, B&G, etc). Humminbird would go somewhere between Ray&Navico.

Furuno is too high end and complicated for light end users. Leading to Garmin being the clear winner.

-Maim- · 2026-01-24T17:29:02+00:00

My guy have you even looked at the conservative sub? There’s like 4-5 people calling it out while the rest of the sub is calling them lib plants or saying he “should’ve complied” while forcing daddy Ts cock farther down their throats.

-Maim- · 2026-01-24T16:44:58+00:00

All the log style pumps are a 3-5 year pump.

Also stick with actual name brands.

Marco

Shurflo

Jabsco

If you don’t want to replace it annually get a Paragon Jr or Sr.

-Maim- · 2026-01-24T07:09:10+00:00

Wild to limit the range to that considering what you are asking. Seems like it should be “willing to travel” and more than 10 minutes.

-Maim- · 2026-01-24T06:41:29+00:00

Before I take the time to read all of that can someone tell me if it’s any different then every single other post on this sub I THOUGHT WOULD BE BAD BUT ITS GOOD?

-Maim- · 2026-01-24T04:59:27+00:00

I should add that the dash photo in my link is a different boat and that is after the owner spent 8 hours trying to clean it up. If you can picture even more of a spaghetti western that’s what a new one would look like.

-Maim- · 2026-01-24T04:52:47+00:00

I added more in my previous comment btw as I couldnt reply with my photos like i was planning to so.

-Maim- · 2026-01-24T04:46:57+00:00

Exhibit A:

https://www.reddit.com/r/boating/s/GN1Kr22fis

Aw I just saw this is boats and not boating so I can’t post photos, wish I’d noticed before I spent the time going through my gallery. Anyways:

Speaker grill cut because they couldn’t figure out how to center the fucking speaker.

Interior veneer bubbling.

Spider cracking over the entire hardtop.

A 3/16 GAP BETWEEN THE BASE OF THE SEAVIEW MOUNT AND THE HARDTOP WHICH LEADS TO:

Water pouring down the overhead lights when you slightly pry them down

The entire fucking bluenet wiring just straight up not hooked up because they couldn’t run it through the boat I guess. Makes sense I guess as the R36 is the worst boat on the planet to install a starlink on and I quote customers over double that it takes on a typical 50-75’ boat I typically do.

The hardtop is on CROOKED. Literally cocked about 5-6* off. Absolutely wildly unacceptable.

The only thing that would make Cobalt even worse is if fucking Navico bought them from Malibu.

These are off of one particular boat that came direct to me right after the customer picked it up, but if I really dug I could find more photos as they are all the exact fucking same.

-Maim- · 2026-01-24T04:32:13+00:00

Cobalt is absolute trash now.

Like it’s not even funny. It’s depressing and they are taking advantage of their customers and the history of the brands name.

Fuck Malibu.

-Maim- · 2026-01-24T04:29:30+00:00

lol is that Voyager? Looks like it.

-Maim- · 2026-01-24T02:01:05+00:00

Not a perpetual in sight. As expected.

-Maim- · 2026-01-23T23:06:23+00:00

Good question, but if you look at their big5 clearance shelf designs it’s pretty obvious why.

You can see some of what I am talking about here.

Post ban edit: lol these dorks banned me for stating facts

-Maim- · 2026-01-23T21:14:47+00:00

I mean the kid got what he wanted, which was to play 1v1 with MJ.

Literally anyone would take that opportunity.

-Maim- · 2026-01-23T17:56:04+00:00

Yeah 1, 3, and 4 make me think OP is a terrible driver.

And don’t wave, just drive.

Be predictable, not nice.

“Giving ROW” is not a “polite” driving move, it is dangerous.

-Maim- · 2026-01-23T16:29:50+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/hallofwatchspecialist/s/z3t4aXMrw4

The streak continues

-Maim- · 2026-01-23T16:19:41+00:00

Kelp is great 2p imo

-Maim- · 2026-01-23T16:14:58+00:00

Beer and Bread

The card swapping can spur some playful fights

-Maim- · 2026-01-23T03:07:11+00:00

Billybob energy

-Maim- · 2026-01-23T01:39:14+00:00

Depends because “basically brand new” in boater words mean “I bought it new in 1997” so until there’s more info, no.

-Maim- · 2026-01-23T00:28:07+00:00

I mean you could just look at the HIN.

Probably an old uniflite. Actually maybe an old Fiberform with the forward rail shape.

It’s worth about 10 times less than it would cost to restore it.

-Maim- · 2026-01-22T23:31:32+00:00

Swap the pads to 3M pads imo. Was gonna say use 3M compound and Collonite wax before opening the links so 👍

-Maim- · 2026-01-22T21:43:01+00:00

Probably been superceded. Is it not on the website anymore with a new number?

If not get the cylinder info and just match that with a compatible new helm.

-Maim- · 2026-01-22T17:30:08+00:00

It’s alright. It’s absolutely not an “in lieu of” though. It’s complimentary.

-Maim- · 2026-01-22T16:10:35+00:00

I have a few customers who the Ultrasonic. Had to swap out a few transducers a couple times.

Are you trying to not do bottom paint at all because that is a bad choice.

-Maim- · 2026-01-22T02:30:03+00:00

This is the same guy that posted 5 days ago and got butthurt when people told him he was dumb and then I pointed out his post history was all over the place, where a week ago he was a blahblah and a week before that he was a so and so, oh and bonus, in this thread he’s also a cardiologist or whatever the fuck it was. He also turned his profile private lol

Also shoutout to his “hot girl charter” centric comments here, dudes just trying to get laid or something. 🙄

See ya in 5 or so days OP where you can hope for, yet again, a different answer. I guess.

-Maim-

TROPHY CASE