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Subject: Re: [worldcruising] Re: Marine charts
From: Steve Strand (strand@XXX.XXX)
Date: Fri Oct 04 2002 - 11:29:32 EDT
Steve:
The demo looks really good, price seems right. Is there a list of available
charts somewhere, I was unable to find one.
thanks
Steve Strand
s/v Danzante
At 11:04 PM 10/4/02 +1000, you wrote:
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Steve" <isitwa@XXX.XXX>
>To: <worldcruising@XXX.XXX>
>Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 7:04 PM
>Subject: Marine charts
>
>
> I'd have to recommend Navichart, Andras. It ain't free but for about
>290Euro you get close to every chart in the World, The program to run the
>show costs 180Euro.
> They have yearly updates that you have to subscribe to keep the program
>running. You don't need to subscribe yearly if you plug a GPS into the
>system.
>There's a subscription fee of about 165Euro per annum which seems minimal
>for what
>you get when you look at the expensive value added, chopped up charting
>programs around today.
>They run an continuous auction on Ebay which is where I found them and they
>offered me
>quite a big discount on the advertised price after a bit of talking. It's a
>barebones program without ships log etc but it's done in an editable
> Vector format. Colour is good and I particularly like the night view
>screen.
>They show shore based objects like Customs, Towers,Post Office's etc
>and you can download a demo at their site.
> There's about twenty scales for each chart.
> From a World chart right down to harbour charts . Even covers lakes.
>It has the usual Route planing and Nav functions and you can load it onto as
>many hard drives as you like without needing the CD to run it. On the down
>side you need a bigger monitor. They recommend 21" with a Pentium 3 600MHZ
>I use a 17" P2 450MHZ and can read the depths ok but the refresh rate takes
>a few seconds with all the options turned on.
>The company is based in Malta.
> http://www.navichart.com/
> Steve
>
>
>
> > > From: "Andras Renyi" <arenyi@XXX.XXX>
> > > Subject: Marine charts
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Does anyone know of a free Internet site to view nautical charts (for
> > cruise
> > > planning and not navigation)?
> > > Please send the link.
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > >
> > > S. Renyi
> > > S/Y AGNUS
> > >
> > >
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