New plotter

Mudisox said:
Slight thread drift but..........

I use a Memory map European edition with all the UK Hydrographic Office charts of Uk waters, my old 15inch laptop with an external antenna. Excellent and it does all I want it to do and more.

I also thought that I had bought the ability to have the French charts but cannot manage to get them onscreen. I am not worried about updates, I am still using paper charts from 1987.

It would be nice however to get France onto my laptop.

Any ideas?
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If you use charts that old, it won't show any wind farms. I agree that rocks and most buoys haven't moved.
 
pvb said:
And imagine the fun of having to go up the mast to replace the rechargeable batteries when they fail!
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I've had a couple of boats with (hard wired) wind instruments Raymarine and NASA. TBH I didn't find them very useful : it's easier to understand the wind is coming from where the windex is pointing and as for wind speed, every sailor should know when to reef or increase sail without a digital display.
 
ghostlymoron said:
I've had a couple of boats with (hard wired) wind instruments Raymarine and NASA. TBH I didn't find them very useful : it's easier to understand the wind is coming from where the windex is pointing and as for wind speed, every sailor should know when to reef or increase sail without a digital display.
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Agree with you entirely, however if you want to set your autopilot to steer to wind, a proper wind instrument is fairly essential.
 
Stemar said:
Since the original question has been answered and the thread is threatening to deteriorate into a slugfest, I'll risk a hijack.

For the kind of sailing I do, mostly Solent pottering, with the odd trip further afield and French canal ambitions, I don't NEED a plotter, but it's definitely a nice to have, I also don't need to integrate everything, nor do I have the budget for it, so what to those that know think about using a daylight viewable tablet as a plotter?

It would live under the sprayhood, in a decent case. On the face of it, it would seem to give a much bigger screen for a lot less money, with the option to add AIS reception for around £100, which seems like a bit of a bargain, especially when I looked at the price of radar reflectors recently!

Since my experience of building PCs has lead me to believe strongly that buying bits from different suppliers is a bad idea because allegedly compatible parts don't always paly nicely together, I'm thinking London Chartplotters.
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I don’t know London Chartplotters but I’ve heard them well spoken of. I find using a tablet just fine. And if I had a spray hood it would be even better. Yes it is a bargain I think.
 
ghostlymoron said:
every sailor should know when to reef or increase sail without a digital display.
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A monohull will tell you when she's got too much sail up for the conditions, but cats may not. Some won't even spill your tea as the wind builds and builds - until suddenly, oops. But it's a bit late to think about a reef when you're upside down
 
ghostlymoron said:
I've had a couple of boats with (hard wired) wind instruments Raymarine and NASA. TBH I didn't find them very useful : it's easier to understand the wind is coming from where the windex is pointing and as for wind speed, every sailor should know when to reef or increase sail without a digital display.
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Deleted: ... Same point as pvb above concerning wind mode.
 
Mudisox said:
Slight thread drift but..........

I use a Memory map European edition with all the UK Hydrographic Office charts of Uk waters, my old 15inch laptop with an external antenna. Excellent and it does all I want it to do and more.

I also thought that I had bought the ability to have the French charts but cannot manage to get them onscreen. I am not worried about updates, I am still using paper charts from 1987.

It would be nice however to get France onto my laptop.

Any ideas?
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Well I managed to get through, and even paid for the French charts from o-charts.org, but seem unable to get them onto my laptop and get them onscreen to use.
The instructions don't seem to help me.
I accept that I am a dinosaur so can anyone help, I am quite happy to come to you with my laptop and pay beer tokens for success?
SW area.
 
Mudisox said:
I accept that I am a dinosaur so can anyone help, I am quite happy to come to you with my laptop and pay beer tokens for success?
SW area.
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I understand OpenCPN pretty well but not the charts. The exercise to add charts would be good for me. Sending a PM.
 
Mudisox said:
Well I managed to get through, and even paid for the French charts from o-charts.org, but seem unable to get them onto my laptop and get them onscreen to use.
The instructions don't seem to help me.
I accept that I am a dinosaur so can anyone help, I am quite happy to come to you with my laptop and pay beer tokens for success?
SW area.
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Happy to help. We can setup a remote desktop session, or I'm in Plymouth
 
Mudisox said:
Well I managed to get through, and even paid for the French charts from o-charts.org, but seem unable to get them onto my laptop and get them onscreen to use.
The instructions don't seem to help me.
I accept that I am a dinosaur so can anyone help, I am quite happy to come to you with my laptop and pay beer tokens for success?
SW area.
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Have sent you a p.m.
 
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