Just a note on some free software that may benefit some people here who may or may not know about it.
I've been playing with this for a little while and will definitely incorporate it as a backup system to the Garmin plotter we have on the boat. The Open Source plotter (Open CPN) is quite intuitive and straight forward to set up and the link to the Global Charts (yup the whole world) are good and the location is virus free.
So if I'm preaching to the choir thanks for reading. Hopefully this helps someone that may have a laptop computer that could do double duty as a chart plotter if need be. Hook up a USB GPS antenna and your off to the races.
http://opencpn.org/ocpn/download
http://www.filecrop.com/82592164/index.html
I've been playing with this for a little while and will definitely incorporate it as a backup system to the Garmin plotter we have on the boat. The Open Source plotter (Open CPN) is quite intuitive and straight forward to set up and the link to the Global Charts (yup the whole world) are good and the location is virus free.
So if I'm preaching to the choir thanks for reading. Hopefully this helps someone that may have a laptop computer that could do double duty as a chart plotter if need be. Hook up a USB GPS antenna and your off to the races.
http://opencpn.org/ocpn/download
http://www.filecrop.com/82592164/index.html