Agree with Mike - I have the original Vista and have used it on the boat for four or five years now. Only major wierd number I ever got was when I forgot to reset all the numbers before the Horn Island Hop one year. We got back to Ocean Springs YC after a particularly hairy, wet, screaming jib reach in flat water on a Nacra 6.0 - my skipper turned to me at the bar where we were in the drip-dry cycle and asked me loudly what our top speed had been. A hush fell over the crowd as I punched a couple of buttons and proudly announced our top speed was 79 mph - in the truck on the way over from Pensacola. <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />

User error aside, Garmin makes a good, reliable rugged product, and the Vista with the compass is quite useable for cat racing.