Garmin 76 GPS

When you are looking for a GPS device that gives turn by turn navigation and off-road 4-wheel trail and hiking guidance, Garmin 76 GPS offers an outstanding geocaching feature that should perfectly match your need.

Although primarily marketed in the marine section, the product performs well even with road navigation and topography mapping. For something that works great on and off the water, this device conveniently increases your boating, hiking or camping adventures, which makes it a wise investment in any man's book.

Garmin GPSMap76 comes with a preloaded MapSource database. The 76 is given a 1 megabyte internal memory to store enough downloaded points, maps and interest data, which comes preloaded with factory Americas Marine Point Database information. It can carry up to 500 waypoint icons and marks the ten nearest points with graphic symbols on the map.

It also has 50 reversible routes that carry up to 50 points of interests in each route. Its MOB and Tracback modes should work beautifully with your long drives.

Just like other advanced Garmin GPS devices, it features an automatic track log with 10 saved tracks that will let you retrace your path in both directions.

Other Garmin 76 GPS features can be linked to your computer. It covers nine data fields, which you can also store in your computer.

It accurately measures elevation, accuracy, bearing, depth and course, making it a perfect boating or sailing companion. It can also measure distance to destination, distance to next point, ETA at destination, and ETA at Next distances which allows you to effectively plan and calculate travel time. It also measures maximum speed and moving average speed, which cautions you on your travel safety.

It also offers some traveling convenience features like the moving trip timer and time of day, water speed and water temperature measurements. It also gives off alarms for anchor drag, approach and arrival, off-course, proximity waypoints and shallow water and deep water. It also integrates a built-in celestial table, sun and moon rise, set and location, which enables you to predict and determine tides as well as the best time to fish or hunt.

Perhaps the most important mariner-friendly feature of Garmin 76 GPS is its Wide Area Augmentation or WAAS-enabled navigation. Its calculated measurements carry within 3 meters accuracy, with data displayed in its large and crisp screen. To enhance viewing clarity, Garmin 76 has backlighting; its simple keypad actuations simplify use especially in low-light conditions.

For something that is built to work both on land and water, it is built to be water-proof and practically weather-proof. It floats in water and its IPX7 waterproof casing can withstand accidental dunks and splashes on the sea or lake.

Some people find it a bit bulky, but it is generally sturdy and fitted for use under tough navigating conditions. While it may be bulky, its greatest tradeoff is its big screen. Being the accurate and handy traveler guide, Garmin 76 GPS is certainly a big competition to the other GPS models in its price and product range because of its practical features and excellent value.

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