Neptune Navigation Software

Ian_Rob

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I am interested in this program. I had the trial version a couple of years ago and thought it was quite good but never purchased the licence.
Is it worth it? Anything better?
 
It’s an outstandingly simple product to use and has been my go to passage planning tool for decades. In a few keystrokes it gives you passage time, best time to leave based on tides, course to steer for passage legs and a lot more. I wish them a very happy retirement.
 
Out of interest what alternatives do forumites use as I may need another product as my ancient computers start to die
I use NavigationPLANNER 7 - Course planning software - NavigationPLANNER on my PC. It’s a bit slow and clunky, doesn’t do auto routing, but it does know about tidal streams/dates. If you create a route by adding waypoints then yiu can set the date you want to start and your average speed over the water and it runs the route departing every hour of the day with leg and overall times taking into account tidal streams. Mine came free with a Navionics Gold card I bought about 10years ago. Oh, and you can export routes and waypoints to a memory card and import them into Raymarine and B&G plotters.
 
There is no better programme and you do not need to be on the intrnet. Happy retirement to them.
Do not know what I will do when my computer gives up the ghost.

Colin Simpson
 
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