Karma's a wonderful thing

I started with the best of intentions. I was going to spend as close to £50 as I could manage & on the wish list was a handheld GPS unit with at least enough accuracy to find something and possibly a USB interface or SD slot to make life easier. Ideally it would record trails to take the pressure off the iPhone and if I could tether it to laptop all the better. Nice but at the bottom of the list would be the ability to plug it into a mounted VHF radio which I don’t have yet so that I can tell exactly where I am on the canals. The only model that really fits the bill is the Garmin eTrex H which is on Amazon for £65 but £79 in the local Maplin. That’s for a small mono screen and only connecting to a PC with an optional data cable for another £20. But while scoping the options what do I spy? A Magellan Triton 300 for £49.98, £90 less than I’ve seen it anywhere else so initially way out of my budget. I hadn’t looked too deeply but it has a colour screen and a data cable in the box to connect to the Magellan software ‘VantagePoint’, which by all accounts is pretty poop but would at least let me plug it into a laptop.

I was sensible & didn’t buy it straight away but Googled it during Sunday evening & it seemed rude not to. So here it is:

Hope it lets me find something.