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GARMIN HOMEPORT ON BOAT GPS SOFTWARE
GARMIN HOMEPORT ON BOAT GPS PC
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One positive is that the basic app is free, giving you a worldwide background chart on which you can do basic route planning and see what the weather is doing up to five days ahead. It was disappointing, therefore, to find the interface old-fashioned, clunky and a bit slow. Jeppersen is one of the major players in vector cartography, so we were expecting good things from its Plan2Nav app, which uses the company’s well-established C-Map 4D charts. But with its limited battery and aversion to water you’ll need to keep your handset near a power source and well away from the wet stuff. Probably the cheapest chartplotting solution around, this app does everything from the usual tracking, route planning and tide, current and waypoint marking, to more sophisticated things like geo-tagging pictures, marking routes on Facebook and recommending nearby repair yards and restaurants.

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And because SOB doesn’t use Microsoft Windows there are no menus – only a toolbar, which can take some getting used to. On the downside tidal streams cannot be used in the route calculations. In route planning, you can specify either the speed of the boat, or the required ETA, either leg-by-leg or for the whole route.

GARMIN HOMEPORT ON BOAT GPS PC

You can also transfer routes and waypoints between the PC and plotter.

GARMIN HOMEPORT ON BOAT GPS SOFTWARE

The software uses C-Map NT+ and Max charts, either on CD or cartridge.

Although it’s the most expensive system listed here it represents good value for money due to some additional features like wind data and a GRIB weather overlay. SOB, as it is known, is an advanced system with all kinds of features. The only advantage is that chart updates are available from the Imray website at the same time as the paper editions. One drawback is that the plotter expires two years after publication, with a new edition coming out every December, and the tidal software needs renewing annually. It offers the basic functionality at a competitive price, and plenty of chart coverage that will meet the needs of most UK-based boaters. Imray’s Digital Chart is our favourite budget buy for passage planning. The tidal data expires at the end of each year but the charts do not, but you can add your own chart corrections as on-screen notes. Five folios of raster charts covering the British Isles are loaded individually from the CD, which is a straightforward but fairly boring process and there are no foreign charts available yet. Installation and configuration is a very simple process and as the copy protection is embedded in the CD, no unlocking codes are required.

Safety in Visibility: This card includes local depth contours so you can feel confident navigating over any marine landscape.The Admiralty RYA plotter is the one of the easiest programs to use but that’s mainly down to its minimal functionality.

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Precision and Accuracy: View the exact position of your vessel, detailed coastal features, anchorages, obstructions, waterways, tidal stations, currents, and depth contours so you will always know precisely where you are and where you want to go.

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