Active Captain functions

[uncledom]

I will say this quite plainly. I really HATE the new Active Captain since Garmin bought them out. The old version was easier to use and I really liked it.

I use to spend a lot of time on Active Captain in the winter day dreaming and planning different routes for cruises. Even now I use it to view charts for fishing since I am in between sailboats. Now, I spend less time on it and get irritated with it when I do go on it.

Often "Progress" on these programs just makes them more complicated, less useful, and makes you have to relearn them.

Funny I used to use it similarly to plan new routes and look up new marinas to stop for the night during said trips. It is useless to me now and I will give B&G my money when it comes to new equipment because I see what idiots the folks at Garmin are, having ruined a perfectly good app. If it doesn't have the input of the whole boating community it's not being used as originally designed, nor to it's fullest potential.

 

[Charlie Jones s/v Tehani]

I will say this quite plainly. I really HATE the new Active Captain since Garmin bought them out. The old version was easier to use and I really liked it.

I use to spend a lot of time on Active Captain in the winter day dreaming and planning different routes for cruises. Even now I use it to view charts for fishing since I am in between sailboats. Now, I spend less time on it and get irritated with it when I do go on it.

Often "Progress" on these programs just makes them more complicated, less useful, and makes you have to relearn them.

+ 1 Haven't even looked at AC for several years.. Started out simple, then got tcchie

 

[jssailem]

I use Waggoner’s Guide up her in the Pacific NW waters. Not much input (except that from @Ken Cross ) to use or to identify as current. Suspect each area has their own best resource.

 

[Ken Cross]

I use Active Captain and it works well in our area. It's hard to find a potential Anchorage that hasn't been reviewed. It works great with MX Mariner on my phone and with AquaMap on our iPad.

Ken

 

[HarrisOutdoors]

I've had good luck with near coastal cruising using AquaMap. Its a heck of a lot cheaper than a new dedicated instrument that can be potentially stolen. My iPad or my iPhone mounts easily to my control station.