C-MAP

[PRH]

Any tips on where to get hold of the old C-MAP charts for a Raymarine Navcentre 600 on a boat I am looking at.....

 

[Robin]

The Navcenter 600 should use the C-Map NT or NT+ cartridges which you can still buy from C-Map, but it will not take the new C-Map Max. We still have a Navcenter 600 as a backup plotter/GPS and it is a good reliable bit of kit. I have a feeling however that it will not accept a C-Map NT+ megawide cartridge but these are no longer available new anyway.

 

[PRH]

Robin, Thanks for the reply. Will look around for NT+

Interestingly I tried the C-MAP site www.c-map.co.uk and it came up with a page stating "Account for domain www.c-map.co.uk has been suspended".

Anyone know what that is all about....

 

[PRH]

Robin, Do you know if it will take the NT+ Wide cards?

Thanks
Peter

 

[Robin]

I think that was what the ones I was using were, certainly not the local ones, they were the widest coverage available at the time I bought the 600 and from memory for example one covered L'Aberwrac'h to Concarneau, the next from Concarneau to Morbihan and over here from Solent to Torquay and Torquay to Scilly. What I think didn't work was the NT+ I now use in my other Navman plotters covering the whole English Channel, both sides from Dover to L'Aberwrach or Scilly or from there to Gibralter. As far as I know these superwide ones are not now offered by C-Map except in Max. The blank user cartridge for the 600 is a smaller memory than later ones too although they look the same. I transfer routes and wpts between our plotters using these cards but for the 600 I have to do it via the PC ( I have C-Map PC Planner and a card reader for it) and use one card to the PC and the other from PC to Navman. Most people probably don't bother with these for backups anyway.

 

[Nick_H]

Yes, it takes the wide charts (as i'm sure you realise it's the data that's "wide", not the card itself)

Of course, with the Navcentre, you can't use all the functionailty of the NT+ charts, and I seem to remember a bit of an issue with character sizing as you zoom the range in or out. I used an NT+ card in a Navcentre for a while, and it works OK. If you're looking for a card second hand, be aware there are different shape cards for Furuno, so make sure you get the proprietary C-map card.

 

[Frontier]

You can find a UK dealer here, also some other info about the C-Map charts (top of page under Personal Solutions)

C-Map


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[bobgoode]

Phone PRS comms on 01255240523

they will sort you out quickly and at a reasonable cost