GL: Electronic Navigation prgms.

[Pat Anderson]

For us Mac types (I'll save that rant for another day, but for now, I 
will just say our house is a Windoze-free zone!), there are a couple of 
good nav programs.  GPSNaxX is the inexpensive one, but it only reads 
the raster charts.  MacENC is a bit more expense (but still a LOT less 
expensive than Coastal Explorer) that can read both raster and vector 
charts.

Now, I actually do have a Windoze partition on one computer, and I  will 
put in a good word for Raymarine's RayTech Planner, which is free - it 
is a limited version of of the RayTechRNS 6.0 software. It is a 
available at 
http://www.raymarine.com/Default.aspx?site=1&section=2&page=1535. I 
still find this an excellent program for route planning. If you have a 
Raymarine display on your boat, the software looks and behaves the same, 
right down to the soft buttons, plus it has a full menu system like 
other Windoze programs.  Highly recommended


J.E. Fordyce wrote:
> I have used both Fugawi www.fugawi.com and Coastal Explorer with success.
> Fugawi is considerably cheaper than CE They both accept NOAA raster and S-57
> charts and Fugawi will also accept Navionics chart cards (with a proprietary
> card reader which is not too expensive).
>  
> J.E. Fordyce
> Toronto ON
> Adagio I
> Kadey Krogen 48 Whaleback
> Home Port Midland ON
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