Koeketiene
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Any recommendations?
North Sea - Channel area.
'Free' would be nice.
North Sea - Channel area.
'Free' would be nice.
Passage planning software
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Norman_E
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Free charts would be nice, but this is not the USA where the Government understands that as taxpayers paid to make the charts they should be able to download them for nothing.
I use Open CPN as passage planning software on a laptop but you will have to buy the charts for UK waters. As I don't sail in the UK I leave it to others to help you find reasonably priced charts.
I use Open CPN as passage planning software on a laptop but you will have to buy the charts for UK waters. As I don't sail in the UK I leave it to others to help you find reasonably priced charts.
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stuartwineberg
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Neptune
I have always used Neptune passage planner for cross channel and CI. it is extremely accurate and IMHO very good value for money.
I have always used Neptune passage planner for cross channel and CI. it is extremely accurate and IMHO very good value for money.
charles_reed
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Download OpenCPN and use CM93Ed2 charts. (that's C-Map which are based on US cartography)
You'll then have passage-planning for the whole world for free and the addition of a USB GPS receiver will give you a very effective chartplotter (again for the whole world)
Burnham Bob
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not having tried any others can't speak for competitiveness and comparitive features, but I'm very happy with the IMRAY ID10 digital charts with cover the North Sea and the Dover Strait. Included software is quite simple to use and if you buy the tidal add on it will help you plan the maximum tidal advantage and tell you when to leave as part of the passage planning function.
Just under £100 with the tidal add on. You get a licence for two PCs so I have one at home and a laptop on board. I actually use the chart plotter, not the lap top when on passage, but I have a gps dongle and the lap top acts as a back up chart plotter.
However, the IMRAY package is great for planning routes and then if you print out you get the waypoints for your plotter/gps.
As I say, I've never treid anything else, but i get on well with this system. Take a look on the website and download the pdf guide as to making the mnost of the software to get a flavour as to what it does.
Just under £100 with the tidal add on. You get a licence for two PCs so I have one at home and a laptop on board. I actually use the chart plotter, not the lap top when on passage, but I have a gps dongle and the lap top acts as a back up chart plotter.
However, the IMRAY package is great for planning routes and then if you print out you get the waypoints for your plotter/gps.
As I say, I've never treid anything else, but i get on well with this system. Take a look on the website and download the pdf guide as to making the mnost of the software to get a flavour as to what it does.
Koeketiene
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Thanks all.
Will give OpenCPN a try tomorrow.
Will give OpenCPN a try tomorrow.
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I use SeaPro on my boat and at home. So long as you remember to take the dongle, you can install it wherever you like.
