Thursday, March 28

New Garmin Smartwatch: Drive and Navigate Your Boat from Your Wrist

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This is just very cool: A new Garmin smartwatch with a dedicated marine GPS that connects to Garmin chartplotters and other electronics on board and even lets you connect to the autopilot so that you can turn, change your heading and steer the boat, all from your wrist.

The new device is the Garmin quatix 5 marine GPS smartwatch, designed from Garmin’s Fenix 5 platform. When paired with other Garmin electronics, it can stream NMEA 2000 data to access boat speed, depth, temperature and wind information all to your wrist, no matter where you are on the boat. When paired with a GHC 20 autopilot control, you can use it to change heading, steer to an active GPS route, add a waypoint and have it sync automatically with the chartplotter.

The quatix 5 also has advanced fitness features, a wrist-based heart rate monitor, and built-in activity profiles and performance metrics for water sports, including paddle boarding, kayaking and canoeing. And it comes with stylish, quick-change bands.

The battery lasts up to two weeks in smartwatch mode, up to 24 hours in GPS mode, and up to 60 hours in battery-saver mode. Available next month, the base quatix 5 costs $599.99, and the quatix 5 Sapphire is $849.99. For more:

http://garmin.com

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