If you’ve been hankering for one of those fancy pod-drive fishing boats you’ve been hearing about, there’s a new trick from Volvo Penta that makes them even more attractive by making boats easier to captain thanks to the integration of Garmin’s intuitive navigation system and Volvo Penta’s joystick controlled IPS system. They call it the Glass Cockpit. This is not a new term; it was coined years ago to define systems employing multifunction displays (MFDs) in airplane cockpits, which replaced the traditional mind-boggling array of gauges and switches. The Volvo Penta borrowed the term to describe a boat system that networks Garmin GPSMAP 8000 MFDs with engine electronics and joystick control systems to make navigation and piloting as easy as twisting a joystick. Yet, how does this benefit saltwater boating anglers?First, for ...![Sport Fishing Mag]()
