From Childhood Passion to Professional Choice: The Furuno Path

Dimitris' relationship with the sea and fishing began as far back as he can remember. Fishing was one of his father's hobbies, and from early childhood Dimitris followed the same path, developing a strong and lasting passion for the sea. Like most anglers, he started from the shore, then moved to boats, at first with friends, and from around 2000 onward in an increasingly intensive and systematic way.

As the owner of his own boat, he has dedicated himself to techniques that mainly target large game fish. And when pursuing selective species, he explains, it is natural to turn to specialized equipment, both in fishing technique and in marine electronics. For a regularly used fishing boat, he is convinced that electronics are among the most important tools on board: a good fish finder, a reliable GPS/chartplotter, a radar, in short, a complete, well-integrated system.

His path to Furuno began around twenty years ago, at a time when the internet offered far less information than it does today. While researching equipment for his needs, one name kept surfacing: Furuno. What particularly caught his attention was that Furuno equipment was widely used by professional fishermen and professional fishing vessels, an industry whose demands for reliability, quality, expertise, technology and performance are extraordinarily high.

That professional endorsement became one of the main reasons he was drawn to the company. Combined with his evolution toward specialized techniques such as slow jigging and live-bait fishing, choosing Furuno became, in his own words, "the natural choice."

Furuno On Board: DIMITRIS' Own Setup