cortez
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I am thinking of buying one, has anybody got or used one.
would like to know your views .
would like to know your views .
c-map pc planner
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rubberduck
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Very good but sometimes can get a duff user card. You can set depth alarms etc on pc, & so plan safe routes from home.
Hurricane
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You dont say what equipment is on the boat.
Is it for NT / NT+ cards (Raymarine RL series etc)?
I use one for this combination - its brill once you've worked out how to use it.
With this combination tho' you must not use the bigger user cartridge for transferring waypoints/routes etc. It has to be the 128kb user card or the Raymarine plotters wont see it.
Is it for NT / NT+ cards (Raymarine RL series etc)?
I use one for this combination - its brill once you've worked out how to use it.
With this combination tho' you must not use the bigger user cartridge for transferring waypoints/routes etc. It has to be the 128kb user card or the Raymarine plotters wont see it.
Frontier
Active member
I Use it it seem pretty good, aerial photos of marinas, animated lights, good zoom detail.
If you want some screen shots PM me with an email address. I tried to put some on a photo site to include in my reply but for some reason they all end up too small.
If you want some screen shots PM me with an email address. I tried to put some on a photo site to include in my reply but for some reason they all end up too small.
Frontier
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Hello again Hurricane, did you get my PM
Malcb
Active member
Excellent, as you can save waypoints and routes to the user card, thus easily transferring them to the plotter on board.
I alos use Neptune Passage Planner, which takes the pain out of calculating tidal advantages/disadvantages on routes.
I alos use Neptune Passage Planner, which takes the pain out of calculating tidal advantages/disadvantages on routes.
Hurricane
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Frontier
Yep - did get your PM
I had loads from others too - after the BBQ.
Cortez
I also use Memory Map and Maptech (Admiralty Charts).
I simply click - click - click my route and then (using a bit of home brew software) transfer to PC Planner and then using a C-Map user card to the boat - job done - off we go.
Yep - did get your PM
I had loads from others too - after the BBQ.
Cortez
I also use Memory Map and Maptech (Admiralty Charts).
I simply click - click - click my route and then (using a bit of home brew software) transfer to PC Planner and then using a C-Map user card to the boat - job done - off we go.
clivew05
New member
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.....Is it for NT / NT+ cards (Raymarine RL series etc)?
I use one for this combination - its brill once you've worked out how to use it.
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I am sure that this is the Navionics Cards - std, Gold and Platinum - I was asking about these yesterday for the C80, apparently the 3D, and flashing pilots - and marina views are only available in the Platinum card which is about £270 Vs the Gold card which is £100 cheaper at £170 ..... when I upgrade to the Latest Raymarine kit - E80, 2Kw Raydome with Raystar 125 GPS ariel Ill be getting the Platinum ... I can then pretend to go to marinas and look at the pics instead ..... (as the weather is so much Sh*&t at the moment /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
.....Is it for NT / NT+ cards (Raymarine RL series etc)?
I use one for this combination - its brill once you've worked out how to use it.
[/ QUOTE ]
I am sure that this is the Navionics Cards - std, Gold and Platinum - I was asking about these yesterday for the C80, apparently the 3D, and flashing pilots - and marina views are only available in the Platinum card which is about £270 Vs the Gold card which is £100 cheaper at £170 ..... when I upgrade to the Latest Raymarine kit - E80, 2Kw Raydome with Raystar 125 GPS ariel Ill be getting the Platinum ... I can then pretend to go to marinas and look at the pics instead ..... (as the weather is so much Sh*&t at the moment /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
BlueChip
Active member
Ive got one I am thinking of sellling
Bought it last year together with some CMAP charts I needed, but I never used the planner
PM me with an offer if you are interested
Bought it last year together with some CMAP charts I needed, but I never used the planner
PM me with an offer if you are interested
ctva
Well-known member
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Frontier
Yep - did get your PM
I had loads from others too - after the BBQ.
Cortez
I also use Memory Map and Maptech (Admiralty Charts).
I simply click - click - click my route and then (using a bit of home brew software) transfer to PC Planner and then using a C-Map user card to the boat - job done - off we go.
[/ QUOTE ] I would be interested to find out about your "home brew" software as that is the combination I use currently.
Chris
Frontier
Yep - did get your PM
I had loads from others too - after the BBQ.
Cortez
I also use Memory Map and Maptech (Admiralty Charts).
I simply click - click - click my route and then (using a bit of home brew software) transfer to PC Planner and then using a C-Map user card to the boat - job done - off we go.
[/ QUOTE ] I would be interested to find out about your "home brew" software as that is the combination I use currently.
Chris
Hurricane
Well-known member
I use Memory-Map software and the Admiralty charts from Maptech. I dont use the actual Maptech software.
I recently upgraded my Memory-Map software to the Pro Version - about £50 I think. No big difference from the usual version but the Pro one includes AIS that I wanted to try out.
I do all my planning using Memory-Map - click click click routes very quickly. I then save (Export) the "Overlay" as they call it to disk as a ?.GPX format file.
I've then written a simple Windows application that massages the GPX file into the ?.RT.XML file that C-Map's PC Planner can read using its File Manager. It will also handle waypoints that aren't part of a route but you have to be carefull not to duplicate names.
It is then a simple matter of writing the data card and loading onto the boat's systems. Using this technique, you can double check everything on the C-Map charts before writing the data card.
I have Raymarine Pathfinders on board and they overwrite any existing data when they read in the data cards - no problem though cos all my source info is stored in Memory-Map format. I even keep different sets of waypoints/routes and load them as I need.
I also have a PDA running Memory-Map software and Maptech charts - this works as an instant planning tool but I have taken this one step further as well. I simply output my routes/waypoints (as explained above) onto the PDA and using a bluetooth GPS the PDA will act as a complete backup nav system during the passage. An additional benefit is that the Memory-Map software inside the PDA also automatically records the track so you have a nice log of everywhere you've been.
Here's an example
Obviously, this is way OTT for just cruising around the Solent but for a X channel trip or extended passage it works well for me.
Let me know if you think that the Windows app will be any use to you - it needs the Microsoft DOT Net Framework installed but thats fairly trivial.
I recently upgraded my Memory-Map software to the Pro Version - about £50 I think. No big difference from the usual version but the Pro one includes AIS that I wanted to try out.
I do all my planning using Memory-Map - click click click routes very quickly. I then save (Export) the "Overlay" as they call it to disk as a ?.GPX format file.
I've then written a simple Windows application that massages the GPX file into the ?.RT.XML file that C-Map's PC Planner can read using its File Manager. It will also handle waypoints that aren't part of a route but you have to be carefull not to duplicate names.
It is then a simple matter of writing the data card and loading onto the boat's systems. Using this technique, you can double check everything on the C-Map charts before writing the data card.
I have Raymarine Pathfinders on board and they overwrite any existing data when they read in the data cards - no problem though cos all my source info is stored in Memory-Map format. I even keep different sets of waypoints/routes and load them as I need.
I also have a PDA running Memory-Map software and Maptech charts - this works as an instant planning tool but I have taken this one step further as well. I simply output my routes/waypoints (as explained above) onto the PDA and using a bluetooth GPS the PDA will act as a complete backup nav system during the passage. An additional benefit is that the Memory-Map software inside the PDA also automatically records the track so you have a nice log of everywhere you've been.
Here's an example
Obviously, this is way OTT for just cruising around the Solent but for a X channel trip or extended passage it works well for me.
Let me know if you think that the Windows app will be any use to you - it needs the Microsoft DOT Net Framework installed but thats fairly trivial.