Polar Navy Navigation Program

wordsort · Jan 11, 2012

We used it on our trip from the Chesapeake to Sarasota last summer. I can say that without it we probably wouldn't have made it. (well maybe we would have). But anyway it was great beyond measure. We used the Mac version. I had a number of discussions with the guy who writes it, and as a software engineer I was real impressed. It's a well written program. It's also cheap and uses free NOAA charts which are updated whenever something changes. If you register with ActiveCaptain you can download all their PointsOfInterest and they will show up on PolarView. These POI's are such things as anchorages and hazards, extremely useful!

rogerefairest · Jan 12, 2012

NOAA charts are not as up to date as you would like them to be.

I bought all the Portugal and Spanish atlantic coast of NOAA paper charts, specially printed in December 2010 and found that in Portugal in some areas (the light houses on the Islands of cape of Peniche) do not agree with the frequency of the lights (our 2007 Reeds almanac did) and in the Bay of Algeciras (or bay of Gibraltar depending on who do you believe) the chart did not even agree with the "new" harbour (which is 5 years old and about to change again) layout, little alone with the lights.

Not to say they are not great aditions to navigation but I believe that some countries forget to tell NOAA about their changes which is a shame.________________________________
From: Edmund Henderson wordsort@...
To: AlbinVega@yahoogroups.com
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Subject: [AlbinVega] Re: Polar Navy Navigation Program

We used it on our trip from the Chesapeake to Sarasota last summer. I can say that without it we probably wouldn't have made it. (well maybe we would have). But anyway it was great beyond measure. We used the Mac version. I had a number of discussions with the guy who writes it, and as a software engineer I was real impressed. It's a well written program. It's also cheap and uses free NOAA charts which are updated whenever something changes. If you register with ActiveCaptain you can download all their PointsOfInterest and they will show up on PolarView. These POI's are such things as anchorages and hazards, extremely useful!

bhofler · Jan 18, 2012

Hi Peter...You know me...always trying the next best thing that I can afford...OpenCPN is very good and is well supported. Because I recently acquired an IPAD I now have ISailor installed and I have to say it is terriffic...Charts are very reasonable (i.e. $25 for East and West Van Isle as opposed to $169 for East or West if using CHS charts). The only issue is the AIS which I am working on. There is a wireless one available but too much at this time. This technology is moving so fast though that I expect the prices to fall considerably as ipads and iphones are used more for navigation.
Going to the boat show to have a look...

Cheers - Brian

j.hunter9999 · Jan 19, 2012

I've toyed with numerous ways to input an AIS and GPS signal into an iPad at a reasonable price and haven't had much luck. I I might be doable wirelessly, but not inexpensively. Downloading charts to the iPad is fine, but I'd rather be able to use my existing charts and just copy them over. I have been able to move files wirelessly after jail breaking my iPhone and believe I could do the same thing with the iPad. However, that doesn't solve the problem of inputing GPS and AIS into the unit at the same time.

Admittedly, I haven't looked at it in a few months. You're right, the technology changes so fast. I'm in the middle of another project, but perhaps I'll take another look in about a month. Given Apple's tendency to lock down its OS, I think anything efficient and inexpensive is going to involve jailbreaking.

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