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Subject: Re: [worldcruising] Electronic Charts systems
From: Arthur Plottier (arthurplottier@XXX.XXX)
Date: Thu Jan 25 2001 - 04:22:11 EST
Thanks from your input. As a matter of interest how many other programs you
used in your laptop and which OS?
Win 95 & 98 are not multitasking systems and crush when too many tasks are
asked to the system to do.I wonder if the navegation software available is
working with MS Work Station or Win 2000 that are multitasking systems?
Cheers
Arthur
>From: "S/V True Mettle" <truemettle@XXX.XXX>
>Reply-To: worldcruising@XXX.XXX
>To: <worldcruising@XXX.XXX>
>Subject: Re: [worldcruising] Electronic Charts systems
>Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 15:42:09 -0800
>
>I have been using Chartview Pro (I have all three systems, Capn, Chartview
>and VNS) for two years now for coastal cruising. When I am offshore, I
>still use Chartview but take at least three running fixes from my sextant.
>All of this is transferred to paper just in case. I have two GPS's and a
>Loran, a Yachtsman's plotter as well as the laptop. The laptop and my bag
>of chart CD's have traveled around the world with me and after three years
>of pretty significant abuse I broke down and replaced the CDROM drive. It's
>an older Dell Latitude XPIcd P-166) but it's been ROCK solid (now where is
>that piece of wood to touch :-)
>
>Dennis
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Arthur Plottier
> To: worldcruising@XXX.XXX
> Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 1:11 PM
> Subject: [worldcruising] Electronic Charts systems
>
>
> Hi,
> As we know there are two common ways in having an electronic chart
> plotter on board. One is based on using a PC or laptop and the other
> based on a dedicated chart plotter.
>
> My experience with the failure in Win 95 and Win 98 is making me very
> nervous on using just the software on a laptop.
>
> What is the reliability of the dedicated chart plotters using C-Map?
>
> My intention is not to rely only on the electronics, so I will carry
> some paper charts however I am not planning to use a sextant based on
> my experience on GPS system
>
> Appreciate any inputs.
>
>
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