Navionics position

[solent clown]

We are very pleased with navionics, but the one thing I find odd going from charts to the display, is the lack of lat/long on the display. We have a GPS in the saloon that provides position data, it just seems odd that the tablet does not display it, even if highlighting our position on the display.
Am I missing something? It would be good to be able to cross reference with a paper chart for exercise purposes with at least some degree of accuracy/ not faffing about.

 

[RichardS]

I don't think it's possible to display continuous coords ...... but if you tap on your location and tap the ? you will see your coords.

Richard

 

[solent clown]

Thanks Richard, I tried that, but simply did not notice the co ordinates at the top of the screen before, thank you for making me look properly. A bit of a Homer Simpson "Doh" moment there I suppose.

 

[steve yates]

Be careful, I found them confusing, it uses decimal minutes, not minutes and seconds; a right pita that it's not user selectable.

I tried to input some waypoints from the thames crossing book and it put me on land I couldn't quite get my head round it as I hadn't realised there were different ways of expressing a lat/long position apart fro the scale on the paper charts.

Of course it could be me being thick but I tried a couple of times and gave up, just selected my own from the chart.

 

[solent clown]

Be careful, I found them confusing, it uses decimal minutes, not minutes and seconds; a right pita that it's not user selectable.

I tried to input some waypoints from the thames crossing book and it put me on land I couldn't quite get my head round it as I hadn't realised there were different ways of expressing a lat/long position apart fro the scale on the paper charts.

Of course it could be me being thick but I tried a couple of times and gave up, just selected my own from the chart.

yes the decimal minutes thing is relatively new on me too, having been taught in deg min sec, but it is OK once you make the jump as it were. What still trips me up from time to time is moving across charts with different scales, so the navionics there is a boon. It is all an academic exercise for us thus far, but now we are finally breaking free of the home territory the practical application will no longer be merely for fun.

 

[prv]

In my experience decimal minutes are the norm at sea. It’s what you’ll hear from anyone reading a position over the radio for example, and the default on every /marine/ GPS I’ve come across (I did once have a very cheap Chinese keyfob GPS that only did seconds and was inconvenient because of it).

Pete

 

[solent clown]

In my experience decimal minutes are the norm at sea. It’s what you’ll hear from anyone reading a position over the radio for example, and the default on every /marine/ GPS I’ve come across (I did once have a very cheap Chinese keyfob GPS that only did seconds and was inconvenient because of it).

Pete

yes I only ever hear decimal on the VHF. When I learned back in the mists of time it was degrees mins and seconds, or Mils.

 

[solent clown]

One criticism of Navionics (and yes I should have checked other sources also) is the wind forecasting. We went out yesterday expecting a very gentle sail/motor inpredicted 0 - 5 knot winds.... We had a nervous pregnant woman on board and a pensioner. The sailing was spirited and great as there was a lot of wind, and after the pregnant woman got over the heeling of the boat fun was had by all. There were a couple of gorgeous old gaff cutters out there too, heeling over under masses of coloured sail, resplendent in the glory of the afternoon sun. It was worth going out just to see them

 

[prv]

One criticism of Navionics (and yes I should have checked other sources also) is the wind forecasting.

I didn't know it even offered that

Pete

 

[Sticky Fingers]

Tap a location then see the LH bar of the crosshairs (a sun / cloud symbol). A pop out menu appears, for wind, weather buoys, tide and currents appears.

 

[solent clown]

I didn't know it even offered that

Pete

f
especially useful is the tide predictor, it is graphic and you can slide it over time to see the height - no more rule of 1/12s ! It is a very useful add on indeed