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09-05-2015, 05:54 PM
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Senior Member
City: Phoenix
Vessel Name: Interim
Vessel Model: Grand Banks 36
Join Date: Jan 2015
Posts: 149
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PC backup
All you computer expert boat owners I need your help. We cruise Southeast Alaska during the summer and are in need of a backup navigation system ( yes, we do have paper charts just in case). Currently we have all our charts on a PC and use them to navigate on a lap top. We are looking for possibly a tablet and a recommendation for software to use as a primary or secondary system. Thanks for any and all help.
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09-05-2015, 05:58 PM
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Guru
City: Stuart FL
Vessel Name: Lucky Lucky
Vessel Model: Pacific Mariner 65
Join Date: Aug 2013
Posts: 2,760
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iPad with Garmin Blue Charts.
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Lucky Lucky
Stuart, FL
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09-05-2015, 06:16 PM
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Guru
City: Powell River, BC
Vessel Name: Northern Spy
Vessel Model: Nordic Tug 26
Join Date: Feb 2012
Posts: 4,075
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I have a Samsung tab with Navionics and Plan2Nav.
I have an IPad with Navionics, Plan2Nav, Nobletec, Navimatics, Memory Maps.
The Navionics is my favorite on both. Works great on either. Have it on my Nexus 5 phone too.
I use a Garmin glo to feed an accurate and fast GPS/glonass signal via Bluetooth to all devices.
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09-05-2015, 06:54 PM
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TF Site Team
City: Jacksonville
Join Date: Nov 2008
Posts: 11,682
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Quote:
Originally Posted by hmason
iPad with Garmin Blue Charts.
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Up till recently we had another laptop (2). This spring we started using an iPad with Garmin Blue Charts. It's another os which always nice if there's missing data or a fix needed The app is free and the charts for the U.S. was $30.
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09-05-2015, 07:57 PM
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Moderator Emeritus
City: SEWARD ALASKA
Vessel Name: DOS PECES
Vessel Model: BAYLINER 4788
Join Date: Feb 2011
Posts: 6,267
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I like Maxsea, which is the same engine that Furuno uses, Time Zero
The ap is free and the charts cost.
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09-05-2015, 08:01 PM
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Guru
City: Maine Coast
Vessel Name: Tortuga
Vessel Model: Nunes Brothers Raised Deck Cruiser
Join Date: Feb 2015
Posts: 889
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I run Seaclear (freeware) on my laptop with free downloaded noaa raster charts. I prefer raster charts to vector, because I like the look of paper charts. I have a $50 USB GPS puck that I plug into the laptop.
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09-05-2015, 10:00 PM
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Guru
City: Sarasota,FL/Thomasville,GA
Vessel Name: Steppin Stone IV
Vessel Model: Marine Trader Kelly Trawler 46
Join Date: Jul 2013
Posts: 1,815
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Quote:
Originally Posted by hmason
iPad with Garmin Blue Charts.
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the way to go!!
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Skype roatan63
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09-05-2015, 10:50 PM
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Guru
City: Sitka
Vessel Model: Transpacific Marine Eagle 32
Join Date: Dec 2014
Posts: 519
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iPad with Nobletech Time Zero.
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09-06-2015, 02:46 AM
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Senior Member
City: Tasmania
Vessel Model: Old Town Loon
Join Date: Jul 2015
Posts: 218
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iPad with Navionics App and charts. If you go with an iPad get the one that's cellular capable for the internal GPS.
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09-06-2015, 06:13 AM
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Guru
City: Meydenbauer Bay Yacht Club
Vessel Name: Lulu (Refugio sold)
Join Date: Mar 2012
Posts: 1,284
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Jetstream
iPad with Navionics App and charts. If you go with an iPad get the one that's cellular capable for the internal GPS.
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+1 on iPad with Navionics, but Bad Elf makes a GPS dongle (I have one with the old connector which no longer works with my iPad mini) or you could go external Bluetooth - latest gen of these support multiple connections. I just hate paying for tech that becomes orphaned or obsolete.
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09-06-2015, 06:20 AM
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Guru
City: Annapolis
Vessel Name: Ranger
Vessel Model: 58' Sedan Bridge
Join Date: Aug 2013
Posts: 7,088
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Several previous threads on the topic, too.
We use MaxSea TZ on a laptop (complements our Furuno NN3D plotter), and MX Mariner (raster charts) and Plan2Nav (C-Map vector charts) on two Android tablets.
-Chris
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