Now that I'm keen on kayaking I have of course been looking at electronic solutions for navigation. And I do know that there are a number of solutions out there, especially for sea kayaking - but I'm thinking like this :

- If we go "real" seakayaking for the next year or so we will hire a guide, and "proper" sea-kayaks, so navigation will not be much of a problem.

- On a week-to-week basis we will be kayaking mainly on rivers and lakes, so maybe "normal" Landranger maps are more than good enough, so what about this device :

This is electronic and waterproof - their bikemount should be good enough to fasten it to a kayak, and it has all the LandRanger maps available?

The company is called Satmap - their website is awful, and the information is so far quite limited, but it is apparently being launched this week.

Main problem IMHO is the price of their maps - they (and the Ordnance Survey) have not managed to get the price right so far!

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