T&T: Navigation Software.. MaxSea

[A.Dune]

I have mixed feeling with Maxsea. I used it on 4 ocean crossings as well
as on local south america navigations while Cmap was fully compatible.
Maxsea come for the MacIntosh/Apple world. It is a closed program with
slow evolution. Initialy developped for offshore sail racers, it have
slowly moved to professional shipping. Furuno partnership opened the
fishing market which seems now the big goal.

Maxsea is as philosophically proprietary as all Apple products are. They
try to keep they costumers in a closed environment to sell their
products and addon at maximum prices. Maxsea is extremely expensive
compare to other products at the same level of quality.

Have you hear about NavSim products from Newfoundland?
Much more friendly and MUCH more customizable for 1/4 of the price. They
seem to be closer the future of navigation than Maxsea is.
www.navsim.com
No affiliation.

After 5 years of use, Maxsea is a dinosaur for me.
Allan Dune


> Hey all, this other thread about NavSoftware has me thinking..  I have a all Furuno system on Feisty Lady running the Navnet2 systems and I noticed now that Furuno owns part of MaxSea that I can plug it right into NavNet.   So I can now get Radar overlay, ARPA, AIS, and other stuff brought over to the laptop which to me is awesome.  But my question is have any of you had any experience positive or negative with MaxSea??  My first knock on it is price, it is NOT a cheap solution.