Garmin’s new charts recalled

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Doryman

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From another list that I am on:

Barely a month after announcing the latest generation of its BlueChart cartography, Garmin has announced a world-wide recall of all the new chart cards.

Errors in the depth data on the new cards may have been at least partly to blame for two boats running aground in Sweden and Denmark. So far, the problem seems to be confined to Scandinavian waters, but Garmin has tracked it down to changes in the production process, and say that they cannot be certain that other areas are not similarly affected.

As a precautionary measure, all customers who have bought BlueChart g2 and BlueChart g2 Vision chart cards since April 2009 are being advised not to use them, but to contact Garmin or their dealer for a replacement.

When corrected versions of BlueChart g2 and BlueChart g2 Vision are available, they will be issued to affected customers free of charge, but Garmin warn that this may not be until the end of the year.
Until then, Garmin is handing out last year’s cards (dated July 2008) as temporary replacements.

http://garmin.blogs.com/pr/2009/06/...-garmin-bluechart-g2-and-g2-vision-v2009.html
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Hmmmm. :? I ordered one for my 276C that was labeled as "Western Canada" but included the entire Puget Sound, Vancouver, Desolution Sound, Inside Passage etc all the way to the Alaskan border. I figured it would work for now AND would also work on my [future] upgrade Garmin unit. I ordered it from Defender about a month ago. THey promptly told me it was back-ordered until July 7th. Now this. :x

After researching it, I found out that various websites describe the same chart differently. It's all kinda confusing to a newbie GPS guy like me. I just want my 276C to function. Back to the drawing board.
 
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