Wiley Nautical Almanac
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RobBrown
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I have just done the same and it does look pretty usable at first sight.
Carduelis
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Yes it is very good - but take care, its still a bit buggy. I'll be double checking it for a while. Also I couldn't find the tidal streams function (as advertised on the demo) to work.
dukes4monny
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It does say on the site that the tidal stream info is coming soon....
KINGFISHER 9
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Wouldn't work the first time I tried downloading it ... gave me a desktop icon which wouldn't work and promised a registration window which wouldn't open. Had another go and got completely different instructions and a registration window so downloaded that lot ... not much works though - weather gave nothing, local facilities for Portsmouth gave a load of French stuff etc ... not impressed so far ... maybe best to remove it all and download it again in a week or two ...
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jon
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Works fine for me, but not as user friendly as a paper one, can not really see the point.
Elemental
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I think it's pretty good as far as it goes. I can't get the Belgium / n.France tides to work but I am running it on linux which isn't strictly supported.
I quite like having access to commercial details/tide/chartlets/weather all in one place. If more content is made available over time, I can see it having a place for planning trips...
I quite like having access to commercial details/tide/chartlets/weather all in one place. If more content is made available over time, I can see it having a place for planning trips...
Starquest
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The concept is excellent but the execution has some way to go. However, it is only a Beta version and so bugs, sadly, have to be expected.
The 'Facilities' database is not working correctly - the selection by port brings up some odd results. For instance, choose to view places to eat at Beaulieu and you get a listing of Cowes restaurants. Ask for fuel suppliers in St. Malo and you're offered Jersey outlets! There are other similar errors.
The much-heralded animated tides are missing but doubtless someone is working on that and when it's working will be a great benefit.
The problem with software that's 'buggy' is that you don't know when to trust it. If it offers me reastaurants in Cowes when I ask about Beaulieu can I trust the critical navigation data? Maybe not!
It's a great idea which, like virtually all software, is launched too early and with too many bugs.
Sadly the form used to contact Wiley was returned as undeliverable.
I'll be waiting for the first real version to be launched before taking it on board but once it has been de-bugged and proves to be more reliable and stable it'll be a massive benfit to yachtsmen.
Trevor Taylor
The 'Facilities' database is not working correctly - the selection by port brings up some odd results. For instance, choose to view places to eat at Beaulieu and you get a listing of Cowes restaurants. Ask for fuel suppliers in St. Malo and you're offered Jersey outlets! There are other similar errors.
The much-heralded animated tides are missing but doubtless someone is working on that and when it's working will be a great benefit.
The problem with software that's 'buggy' is that you don't know when to trust it. If it offers me reastaurants in Cowes when I ask about Beaulieu can I trust the critical navigation data? Maybe not!
It's a great idea which, like virtually all software, is launched too early and with too many bugs.
Sadly the form used to contact Wiley was returned as undeliverable.
I'll be waiting for the first real version to be launched before taking it on board but once it has been de-bugged and proves to be more reliable and stable it'll be a massive benfit to yachtsmen.
Trevor Taylor
Cantata
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........ it'll be a massive benefit to yachtsmen.
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....but no benefit to Wiley??/forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif I can't get my head round why they've done it.
Had a look at the East Coast bits, they seem to have lifted chunks out of their books to go in there, I wonder what the authors think of that.
I really don't like the user interface, it's like the old very early and amateurish attempts at Windows apps. Very slow, too, on my Ferrari-like desktop...
........ it'll be a massive benefit to yachtsmen.
[/ QUOTE ]
....but no benefit to Wiley??/forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif I can't get my head round why they've done it.
Had a look at the East Coast bits, they seem to have lifted chunks out of their books to go in there, I wonder what the authors think of that.
I really don't like the user interface, it's like the old very early and amateurish attempts at Windows apps. Very slow, too, on my Ferrari-like desktop...
Robin
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I just downloaded it and it is OK for free and use as a quick at home reference, maybe more later but otherwise it is very basic. Tides miss out Brest which although out of the area are the usual reference port for North Brittany which IS in the area. Works fast enough on Vista. I have all the tide data inc rates via other souces on my laptop so I doubt it will get much use in our case.
jhr
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For instance, choose to view places to eat at Beaulieu and you get a listing of Cowes restaurants
[/ QUOTE ] Sounds about right to me - there's nowhere decent to eat on the Beaulieu River, in spite of the re-vamping of the Master Builder's, so they've defaulted to the next nearest set of venues..... /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
The Almanac looks good in principle, and Wiley are a serious, quality outfit who will probably be in it for the long term, not just to make a quick buck, so I think it's an encouraging development.
For instance, choose to view places to eat at Beaulieu and you get a listing of Cowes restaurants
[/ QUOTE ] Sounds about right to me - there's nowhere decent to eat on the Beaulieu River, in spite of the re-vamping of the Master Builder's, so they've defaulted to the next nearest set of venues..... /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
The Almanac looks good in principle, and Wiley are a serious, quality outfit who will probably be in it for the long term, not just to make a quick buck, so I think it's an encouraging development.
bluedragon
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In principle, this is the way to go. Pity it stops at Padstow (for me), but the idea of having just the area you want, on a laptop, and updateable as the year progresses works for me. I started buying the ring-binder version of the Reeds almanac simply so I lcan eave all the un-needed pages at home and put the ones I wanted into a nice slim folder, rather than keeping something the size of two house bricks by the chart table!
I look forward to see how this evolves.
I look forward to see how this evolves.
