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If you have answers, please help by responding to the unanswered posts.
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Join ActiveCaptain.com. It has several capabilities that will help your voyage planning: a distance path calculator and thousands of anchorage and marina reviews. It is free.
The one downside: it uses Flash so it doesn't work on Macs, iPads and Android devices.
David
The one downside: it uses Flash so it doesn't work on Macs, iPads and Android devices.
David
Capt.Bill11
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There are a number of plotter apps., Garmin and Navionics come to mind.
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caltexflanc
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Opn Capn is a great free chart plotter app that runs on Macs. Or step up to Polar navy, or my choice, MacENC.
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If you want to plan trips I suggest starting with some of the print guidebooks such as these:
http://www.waterwayguide.com/shipstore/index.php?cPath=21
These will give you a good idea of where you might want to go and the facilities available.
Active Captain is good also but doesn't give you the overview of the guidebooks. It's better underway if you have Internet access.
I use Garmin's Homeport to plot the actual routes and then upload them to my plotter. It only works if you have a Garmin plotter.
http://www.waterwayguide.com/shipstore/index.php?cPath=21
These will give you a good idea of where you might want to go and the facilities available.
Active Captain is good also but doesn't give you the overview of the guidebooks. It's better underway if you have Internet access.
I use Garmin's Homeport to plot the actual routes and then upload them to my plotter. It only works if you have a Garmin plotter.
