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Great Vids G but they,d look even greater with a flotilla of Mac,s sailing in them

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Tomfoolery wrote:We could also do a mini-loop from Scarborough to Whitby to Port Darlington or New Castle to Cobourg, and back. Each leg being 16 to 18 nm, which is a bit longer than the 11 nm or so from Port Credit to the Toronto Islands that we usually do.

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Hi Tomfoolery, what marine charts software did you use in these snapshots?

gabid wrote:

Tomfoolery wrote:We could also do a mini-loop from Scarborough to Whitby to Port Darlington or New Castle to Cobourg, and back. Each leg being 16 to 18 nm, which is a bit longer than the 11 nm or so from Port Credit to the Toronto Islands that we usually do.

Hi Tomfoolery, what marine charts software did you use in these snapshots?

Offshore Navigator, which is owned by Maptech. I'm running it on a Dell notebook computer, which isn't a great way to fly, but it works for me.

Has on-water mode . . .



. . . including bright day mode . . .



dusk/dawn, and night modes, which is hard to see now, but is surprisingly bright and visible at night without killing your night vision . . .



. . . along with MOB, tracking, and so on. I use a little USB hockey puck GPS antenna for real-time tracking.

Pretty useful, but probably more useful if on a trawler or other boat with indoor space to put a computer.

http://www.landfallnavigation.com/emonav.html

But it does use free charts you can download from NOAA, the very same ones you pay for if you don't have a large-format plotter, which is nice. Those big and small rectangular boxes are charts within the chart on the screen, which you can highlight or just zoom into.

If I had a tablet, I'd be using that, especially if it's brighter than my notebook computer. And runs on less juice, and can run on 12V power.

Also, just noticed while sniffing around that that part of Lake Ontario and surrounding area is called the Golden Horseshoe. Who knew?

Thank you for the information about Maptech offshore.

I see you're from Toronto. I can't get free raster charts of that area, other than the chart shown. NOAA doesn't cover Canadian waters. It would be nice if I could, though, as I try to get there once a year. I get I'll have to crack open my cobweb-sealed wallet and pay the long green for one/some, but I haven't seen any charts in the .bsb format. Or some long multi-color, in the case of Canadian money.

Tomfoolery wrote:I see you're from Toronto. I can't get free raster charts of that area, other than the chart shown. NOAA doesn't cover Canadian waters. It would be nice if I could, though, as I try to get there once a year. I get I'll have to crack open my cobweb-sealed wallet and pay the long green for one/some, but I haven't seen any charts in the .bsb format. Or some long multi-color, in the case of Canadian money.

I never used raster charts, I found them expensive here. I decided to use a Garmin chart plotter and I bought the Great Lakes charts for it.