UKHO Chartplotter software. A alive or dead?

[Alfie168]

leafing through a PBO from March 04 in the New Gear section there are details of the UKHO basic chartplotter software for £40. I cant find any mention of it on the UKHO website, so either I am blind or it has been deleted.

Anybody know anything about it?

Tim

 

[dk]

Looks like they've dropped it. Try the Imray one instead - its even better as it includes AIS and is only £30-odd the last time I checked.

 

[SkerryMerry]

Anybody know anything about it?

It's at http://www.admiraltyleisure.co.uk/rya_chart_plotter.asp.

 

[Vara]

leafing through a PBO from March 04 in the New Gear section there are details of the UKHO basic chartplotter software for £40. I cant find any mention of it on the UKHO website, so either I am blind or it has been deleted.

Anybody know anything about it?

Tim

Second the Imray steer, very good bit of kit.

http://www.imray.com/catresults.cfm?pubcatid=63&pubcat_parent_id=5

Charts are printable, in conjunction with laminator , makes good cockpit chartlets for strange ports.

 

[Nico]

RYA chart plotter

It's at http://www.admiraltyleisure.co.uk/rya_chart_plotter.asp.

If I remember correctly the RYA chartplotter has the major irritation of not tiling the different charts, so you have to wait til you get to the edge of one before going on to the next.

 

[moluag]

If I remember correctly the RYA chartplotter has the major irritation of not tiling the different charts, so you have to wait til you get to the edge of one before going on to the next.

and in addition you have buy a new one every year as they(tidal data) cannot be updated, that said i still use one and find it ok for my sailing area,i dont bother updating as i use separate tide tables

 

[boggybrn]

With the original version you couldn't update the tidal data, but this has been possible for some time now. The new data is free on the Admiralty web site.

I bought a copy for the Solent area back in 2006. Then earlier this year bought the latest version which now cover the South coast. It was about £45 and together with a netbook and a homemade cable to the GPS that came with the boat makes for a cheap chartplotter.

 

[Ubergeekian]

Anyone found a good workaround for the original-CD-must-be-in-the-drive nonsense with which they have crippled it?

 

[Lodesman77]

Easy... Get a piece of software called Alcohol 52% (there are others, Virtual CD is good too), it loads CD images into a virtual CD drive which keeps the plotter happy.

Make an iso image of your CD on your main PC using whatever CD burning software you have, then transfer it to your netbook using a USB memory stick (or bluetooth if you have the time). Then load the image using the virtual CD software before starting the plotter. This setup works on my netbook, and I plug in a USB GPS unit to complete the package.

I have an old copy of the Admiralty (2006) which I've used to prove the concept but will be getting the Imray software as it seems to provide a lot more for similar cost...

 

[SkerryMerry]

and in addition you have buy a new one every year as they(tidal data) cannot be updated

The 2008 (5th) edition was updatable with a 2009 download for tides.

Nico, I wasn't expressing a view, merely responding to the the OP's request.