Independent Marine Electronics
Product Reports and Installation Tips

Our independent unbiased reports will help you choose top rated marine electronics and electrical gear for your boat.

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We make it easy to pick the right product to fit your boat and budget by giving our readers straightforward facts and opinions on how well a product performs that are simply not available from any other sources.

Our product reviews are not rewritten, rehashed, or regurgitated press releases often portrayed as a review by other publications or websites.

Check out our Lowrance HDS-7, West Marine AIS1000, or Simrad NX45 review to see for yourself.

We actually install and test every piece of gear before we report on it at Marine Electronics Reviews.

We test everything electronic or electrical you might find or use on a recreational or small commercial boat.

After you have picked the right piece of gear use our knowledgeable installation tips to get it installed on your boat the right way.

What We Test

So far we've tested and posted reviews on everything from small boat autopilots to fixed mount VHF radio to handheld VHF radio to marine chartplotters to image stabilized binoculars to electric bilge pumps. As we continue to test products in these groups we'll keep posting the results.

If we haven't tested the gear, we won't report on it.

New Reports and Reviews

Our posted chartplotter reviews currently cover a wide range of units from standalones capable of providing basic GPS navigation and mapping to units that combine navigation with an internal fishfinder.

We have also reported on large screen multi-function displays that network data with a variety of other sources like black box sounders, radar, satellite receivers, and AIS units.

I have decided to add reviews on a number of Marine Binoculars even though they are not technically classified as marine electronics, they are an essential tool for any helmsmen.

In the most recent reviews posted, when applicable you'll find a table added in the right hand column containing gear specifications. In reports where specifications are a critical component you'll find a large table in the center column.

All the gear we report on here at Marine Electronics Reviews was tested in the Florida Keys aboard one of our three test boats or reviewed ashore by our seasoned testers.