I get emails from "About Sailor on a regular basis.
Being a newbie, I try to get as much info about sailing to lessen the learning curve.
So this author rated the best chart apps for phones.
Kinda came at a god time, I'm reading my book, "Coatal Navigation" by Mike Pyzel for my ASA cert. in April.
Always been a "map" junkie.
Road, topo, route sheets. I was the guy who kept time when we did motorcycle enduros. If it had a map on it, my nose is in it.
So the authur rated his top apps.
1 Memory Map
2 MX Mariner
3. Naviating Marine Lakes
4 Nuti Chart Lite
I looked on my wife's I phone, (I have a old phone cuz I brutal on them, I get the hand me downs to kill), at the chart apps available, what they can do etc. (there's a LOT)
Price range- they go form $9.99-$49.99 for the few I looked at.
Looked at MX Mariner on line (they have have a U Tube on the entire system. WoW! what it can do).
SO the question is...................................
A chart app for my phone?
has anyone used them, pros-cons
What CAN they do, not do?
An I phone app or a GPS? or a paper chart or all?
Presently I really don't need anything yet, (I just rented my first slip at a small, well small compared to some of the places I see people sail at on this site lake- Lake Walenpalpac in Pa.), but I have a friend who has a "summer house" in Clayton N.Y. on the St. Lawerence that I might head up to this summer to see if there really is water there.
IS a phone chart app worth the $$?
Joe
So many questions, so many things I need to know
Being a newbie, I try to get as much info about sailing to lessen the learning curve.
So this author rated the best chart apps for phones.
Kinda came at a god time, I'm reading my book, "Coatal Navigation" by Mike Pyzel for my ASA cert. in April.
Always been a "map" junkie.
Road, topo, route sheets. I was the guy who kept time when we did motorcycle enduros. If it had a map on it, my nose is in it.
So the authur rated his top apps.
1 Memory Map
2 MX Mariner
3. Naviating Marine Lakes
4 Nuti Chart Lite
I looked on my wife's I phone, (I have a old phone cuz I brutal on them, I get the hand me downs to kill), at the chart apps available, what they can do etc. (there's a LOT)
Price range- they go form $9.99-$49.99 for the few I looked at.
Looked at MX Mariner on line (they have have a U Tube on the entire system. WoW! what it can do).
SO the question is...................................
A chart app for my phone?
has anyone used them, pros-cons
What CAN they do, not do?
An I phone app or a GPS? or a paper chart or all?
Presently I really don't need anything yet, (I just rented my first slip at a small, well small compared to some of the places I see people sail at on this site lake- Lake Walenpalpac in Pa.), but I have a friend who has a "summer house" in Clayton N.Y. on the St. Lawerence that I might head up to this summer to see if there really is water there.
IS a phone chart app worth the $$?
Joe
So many questions, so many things I need to know