Garmin 72H

Almost every boat show seems to produce a crop of new hand-held GPSs, and this was no exception. But amongst the fresh faces of Lowrance’s new Endura range, and Garmin’s new Oregon and Dakota ranges, the “new” Garmin GPS 72H stood out.

First launched in 2002, the GPS 72 is a rare example of a dying breed – a straightforward hand-held navigator, without a chart, touchscreen, barometer or heart-rate monitor. With a street price that is likely to be somewhere around the £100 mark, the updated GPS72H has inherited most of it’s predecessor’s features and functions,  including tidal data, sunrise/sunset times and a hunting and fishing calendar, to which has been added a USB port to transfer routes and waypoints to and from a PC, and a much improved GPS “engine”

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