Passage Planning software on a Mac: permission to enter the 21st century please?

[BelleSerene]

I have long used Neptune Navigation's Passage Planner Plus software. It's been clunky, but actually excellent at planning passages. You set a route, give it a window of departure times and using tidal predictions it works out your passage times (and CTS etc) for each leg, the whole passage time and so lets you optimise your departure time so as best to work the tides. Yes, of course it's just replacing a manual process, but it's a pretty tedious process and I have found this very useful.

But it only works on Windows. For a few years I ran it on a Windows VM on my MacBook. After a rebuild I can't be bothered with a Windows VM.

I just tried to install the software in Crossover (Google it if you don't know it) - but the installation produces a couple of errors and the passage planning software won't run within it.

Savvy Navvy has a visually sexy cloud-based passage-planning tool in development - check out their current status - but it won't currently accept future departure times, or even do tidal calculations, so it's no good yet for planning.

I've been told that OpenCPN (which can run on a Mac as Apple runs on Linux) allows passage planning, but it doesn't look like it to me - my definition of a passage planner is that it works out tidal drifts and durations for various future departure times and allows you to optimise your time of departure, also giving you a bearing for long tidal legs. OpenCPN doesn't seem to do that.

Can it really be that no-one has yet marketed a passage planner that'll run on a Mac? Do smarter spirits than me have a way of doing this? Must I really install a parallel Windows OS on my Mac to do this? I'm just trying to automate tedious calculations!

 

[Giblets]

I was under the impression that Neptune were in the process of producing their (excellent) software for iOS so perhaps a Mac version is not that far behind.

 

[ditchcrawler]

Neptune indicated that they were going to do a version for Mac at LIBS some 4 or5 years ago. I signed up to be a tester , but when I contacted them later they said they were not progressing it as it was too small a market. I have kept my old Windows machine purely for using the passage planning and I did have their tide tables programme but this is easily available on apps etc. There looks like a market gap here but it may be too small.