tomdove
Veteran Member
We ran about 550 miles from Sanford FL to Myrtle Beach SC in April and had great success with Navionics on the iPad as my primary nav aid, with paper charts and a Garmin chartplotter as backup. The Navionics Sonar Charts are outstanding for iffy channels, especially going into tight anchorages. The automatic routing feature is astonishingly good, and I ended up trusting it most of the time.
I used Garmin BlueChart for Active Captain information then. Unfortunately, that's now discontinued so I am trying out AquaMap, which has AC on it. It looks promising for our continuation of the cruise, from Myrtle Beach to Annapolis.
Both of these apps and their charts are inexpensive and easy to use. It's a new golden age of navigation.
-- Tom Dove
SNOWBIRD, Grand Banks 32 #599
I used Garmin BlueChart for Active Captain information then. Unfortunately, that's now discontinued so I am trying out AquaMap, which has AC on it. It looks promising for our continuation of the cruise, from Myrtle Beach to Annapolis.
Both of these apps and their charts are inexpensive and easy to use. It's a new golden age of navigation.
-- Tom Dove
SNOWBIRD, Grand Banks 32 #599