T&T: Which electronic charts?

[John Cuttitte]

The Army Corps of Engineers maintains current S57 ENC charts at their website
for all major US inland waterways.  You can get these for free here.



http://www.agc.army.mil/echarts/inlandnav/



The site is sometimes down so be patient (it actually looks like its down
now)



You will need a chartplotting program that supports the free S57 charts, like
Coastal Explorer, or Chart Navigator Pro.

> From: bobhof at sbcglobal.net
> To: marin.faure at boeing.com
> Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 11:22:04 -0500
> CC: trawlers-and-trawlering at lists.samurai.com
> Subject: Re: T&T: Which electronic charts?
>
> I have installed the NavNet3 system and at this time my crusing
> grounds are the Central US rivers. Furuno does not have charts for
> any of these rivers and does not have a date of when they might be
> available. They told me they are concentrating on the coastal regions
> now. I am not sure why they can't supply as they are the main
> supplier of commercial systems/charts for the tow boats. I have
> purchased the river charts for my Iphone at $4.99 (Navionics) and am
> really impressed with the detail. Have received one update already
> with changes I have noticed. Not sure why Furuno has decided to not
> use Navionics in the NN3 system.
> The rest of the system, radar, fishfinder/depth and other functions
> are great so far.
> Rob Hoffman
> 486 Ocean Alexander
> St. Louis, MO
> On Jul 7, 2009, at 7:20 PM, Faure, Marin wrote:
>
> >> Furuno's Nav-net was originally going to be based on C-Map as all
> >> their
> > previous solutions and suddenly at the last minute they switched to
> > Navionics.
> >
> >
> > We installed a new Furuno NavNet VX2 a little over two years ago,
> > and it
> > is C-Map based. I don't know if Furuno has subsequently dropped the
> > C-Map option but we had the choice of Navionics or C-Map. Since our
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