I am thinking of adding fugawi enc marine software to my laptop to use on the boat,but does it show tides and currents. Some time in the future I'll be relocating to florida and hope to sail my boat down to port charlotte,Its suppose to have all the charts that would be needed to make the trip or should I get the raymarine software for my RL7OC PLUS with radar. nick
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Try a free one first
NOAA has released a number of charts for Florida. However, a lot of the intercoastal is not yet available. Take a look at SeeMYDEnc. It can be downloaded at http://sevencs.com The charts can be downloaded from NOAA. Use the import function on the SeeMYDEnc program to see the charts. With the charts you should at least be able to plan your sail to Florida, good luck.
NOAA has released a number of charts for Florida. However, a lot of the intercoastal is not yet available. Take a look at SeeMYDEnc. It can be downloaded at http://sevencs.com The charts can be downloaded from NOAA. Use the import function on the SeeMYDEnc program to see the charts. With the charts you should at least be able to plan your sail to Florida, good luck.
Raymarine and Your Laptop...
Hey Nick, Great question. I, too, have an RL70RC radar/chartplotter from Raymarine & I love the idea of being able to interface it with my laptop. In fact, when I saw that it was do-able through Raymarine's software & hardware kit, it was one more reason to go with Raymarine. Before you get too excited, though, check out the cost. I work in the software industry and there are a lot of hardware/software experts that I work with. I showed them the interface & what it cost & they were blown away. Connecting an HSB2 system to a serial port on a laptop is a fairly eaqsy thing to do & their modem interface isn't very expensive to make. It seems to me (I could be wrong here, this is only an opinion) that Raymarine doesn't want it's laptop interface to compete with the purchase of a 2nd unit for the Nav station below. I want to say the complete system is around $1,300 @ West Marine. To me, that's just too much $$. I like the C-Map system & Maptech, for the money. The benefit of the C-map system is that you can use your existing c-map charts & not have to purchase additional charts for your area. You also get a c-map card read/write drive that will allow you to plot waypoints at home, store them on the c-map disk, bring them to the boat & download them directly into the Raymarine chartplotter. Not bad for around $149 + an extra $30 for the writable cartridge. Check out the related link below & click on the "PC Planner" link. Any other opinions out there??? Allen Schweitzer s/v Falstaff C-30 Hull# 632
Hey Nick, Great question. I, too, have an RL70RC radar/chartplotter from Raymarine & I love the idea of being able to interface it with my laptop. In fact, when I saw that it was do-able through Raymarine's software & hardware kit, it was one more reason to go with Raymarine. Before you get too excited, though, check out the cost. I work in the software industry and there are a lot of hardware/software experts that I work with. I showed them the interface & what it cost & they were blown away. Connecting an HSB2 system to a serial port on a laptop is a fairly eaqsy thing to do & their modem interface isn't very expensive to make. It seems to me (I could be wrong here, this is only an opinion) that Raymarine doesn't want it's laptop interface to compete with the purchase of a 2nd unit for the Nav station below. I want to say the complete system is around $1,300 @ West Marine. To me, that's just too much $$. I like the C-Map system & Maptech, for the money. The benefit of the C-map system is that you can use your existing c-map charts & not have to purchase additional charts for your area. You also get a c-map card read/write drive that will allow you to plot waypoints at home, store them on the c-map disk, bring them to the boat & download them directly into the Raymarine chartplotter. Not bad for around $149 + an extra $30 for the writable cartridge. Check out the related link below & click on the "PC Planner" link. Any other opinions out there??? Allen Schweitzer s/v Falstaff C-30 Hull# 632
I have Fugawi
installed on my PC and if I don't think it has tide and current information. They are not listed in the HELP nor are they listed in the feature on their web site. Other than that, I think its a great piece of software.
installed on my PC and if I don't think it has tide and current information. They are not listed in the HELP nor are they listed in the feature on their web site. Other than that, I think its a great piece of software.
c-map pc planner
I've got the pc planner software and it does work pretty well with the rl70rc, BUT-cmap apparently changed their user card format, and you need to have your rl70 software updated to use the newer cards-check with raymarine before you get the package, they can tell you the version you need and get you the update
I've got the pc planner software and it does work pretty well with the rl70rc, BUT-cmap apparently changed their user card format, and you need to have your rl70 software updated to use the newer cards-check with raymarine before you get the package, they can tell you the version you need and get you the update
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