I am a brand new "big boy" boater - have had lake boats for years but buying my first ocean-going boat. It's a full displacement trawler. So it's slow.
The instrumentation is ancient (original 23+ years old). Pic below.
I would like to get new navigation, chart plotter, autopilot, radar. It's all super expensive though. The difference/jump in price as screen size increases seems absurd to me given that AFAIK the guts inside aren't that much different. I was just at Costco and they had the biggest TV I have ever seen I think it was 98" for like 1500 bucks.....
My concern is that if I stay in my budget and get a smaller screen that I might not be able to read it clearly and always have to be zooming in.
Can those of you in the 50 and up crowd maybe comment on screen size and bifocals/progressives, etc. it's a big big investment to me so I appreciate any feedback.
I presume two is better than one for redundancy - but again only so much will fit physically and in my budget.

The instrumentation is ancient (original 23+ years old). Pic below.
I would like to get new navigation, chart plotter, autopilot, radar. It's all super expensive though. The difference/jump in price as screen size increases seems absurd to me given that AFAIK the guts inside aren't that much different. I was just at Costco and they had the biggest TV I have ever seen I think it was 98" for like 1500 bucks.....
My concern is that if I stay in my budget and get a smaller screen that I might not be able to read it clearly and always have to be zooming in.
Can those of you in the 50 and up crowd maybe comment on screen size and bifocals/progressives, etc. it's a big big investment to me so I appreciate any feedback.
I presume two is better than one for redundancy - but again only so much will fit physically and in my budget.
