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[QUOTE]Captain - 1/8/2015  2:22 PM

Highly recommended here. I absolutely love it. Spent a week in Canada on LOW with it and it performed flawlessly. It uses far less juice than a comparable Terrova (Max Amp draw 38 vs near 50 for a Terrova 80#). 
The anchor feature is one that I found myself using a ton for fishing suspended crappies and walleyes. It was amazing with 25 MPH winds, boat full of wife and kids and we literally stayed on the spot without any other anchor for as long as I wanted. The other boats around us were dragging their anchors because the wind was so strong and they wouldnt hold, but I held position. It is so nice to be able to "anchor" and jog forward, back, left or right a few feet to fine tune your location. Not something you can do with the IPilot.
I have seen comparisons where a guy compared the anchor function side by side with a Terrova and the xi5 was far more precise and didnt roam at all compared to the Terrova. You could see all kinds of tracks on this GPS is how he was comparing the two.
Recording and playback of a track is seemless. I used it a couple times, but honestly I found myself just using heading lock and cruise control 95% of the time. I cannot get over how quiet it is and smooth and fast the head turns.
I highly recommend it.[/QUOTE]

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Posted 1/8/2015 2:22 PM (#747285 - in reply to #717703)
Subject: Re: Motor Guide Xi5 vs Terrova

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Highly recommended here. I absolutely love it. Spent a week in Canada on LOW with it and it performed flawlessly. It uses far less juice than a comparable Terrova (Max Amp draw 38 vs near 50 for a Terrova 80#).
The anchor feature is one that I found myself using a ton for fishing suspended crappies and walleyes. It was amazing with 25 MPH winds, boat full of wife and kids and we literally stayed on the spot without any other anchor for as long as I wanted. The other boats around us were dragging their anchors because the wind was so strong and they wouldnt hold, but I held position. It is so nice to be able to "anchor" and jog forward, back, left or right a few feet to fine tune your location. Not something you can do with the IPilot.
I have seen comparisons where a guy compared the anchor function side by side with a Terrova and the xi5 was far more precise and didnt roam at all compared to the Terrova. You could see all kinds of tracks on this GPS is how he was comparing the two.
Recording and playback of a track is seemless. I used it a couple times, but honestly I found myself just using heading lock and cruise control 95% of the time. I cannot get over how quiet it is and smooth and fast the head turns.
I highly recommend it.