Electronic Reed's

[bromleybysea]

Having managed to get into the new electronic Reed's without difficulty, I wondered if other folk have encountered the same problems as me. It might just be my general lack of IT savvy, but where is the standard port information for the East Coast, at least the bit from the Blackwater to Harwich? And the page for Harwich Harbour dosn't seem to exist at all, and the Orwell and Stour chartlet won't zoom. I expect there is more. I appreciate that this is a beta version, but I'm underwhelmed. I hav'n't tried the passage planning function yet- has anyone else here?

Work less, sail more.

 

[FullCircle]

Having managed to get into the new electronic Reed's without difficulty, I wondered if other folk have encountered the same problems as me. It might just be my general lack of IT savvy, but where is the standard port information for the East Coast, at least the bit from the Blackwater to Harwich? And the page for Harwich Harbour dosn't seem to exist at all, and the Orwell and Stour chartlet won't zoom. I expect there is more. I appreciate that this is a beta version, but I'm underwhelmed. I hav'n't tried the passage planning function yet- has anyone else here?

Work less, sail more.

Go look at ThreePointFix?

 

[Pye_End]

but where is the standard port information for the East Coast, at least the bit from the Blackwater to Harwich?

If you put river Stour into the route planner it is coming up with HW and LW information. Presume this is for Harwich, but not sure. Can't see a way yet of bringing up the tables of data.

And the page for Harwich Harbour dosn't seem to exist at all, and the Orwell and Stour chartlet won't zoom.

Not sure if I am looking at the same thing that you expect, but the chartlet for the Stour and Orwell is in the Ports and Harbours section, and certainly on my machine will zoom/scroll. A different chartlet showing detail of Harwich comes up in the route planner, and this also can zoom/pan.

 

[DipperToo]

I believe Reeds have stated that not all standard ports are linked in yet to this beta version - Harwich being one of them!

Passage planning is currently 'as the crow flies' on a point to point basis (across land etc)and tides are excluded from the planning. I did ask the question about tidal planning and got a very fast efficient reply stating that the tidal planning is a manual process (as with paper and pencil) and the digital almanac provides quick access to all the data required. I did find it useful in a simple text that on the planning pages it brought together all the relevant items such as tidal stream chartlets, harbour chartlets if available as well as a timeline for passage with sunrise, distance etc. I think I will continue my PcPLotter software for actual passage planning as that caters for tidal gates etc as well as streams for optimal departure times on future dates.

Getting shipping forecasts and weather updates using the Reeds digital almanac is also very fast - just a minute or two when using my 3G phone as the internet connection point for my laptop.