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Dave5041
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Initially Posted - 05/14/2014 :  19:24:17  Show Profile
The current issue of Sail has a pretty good summary of nav apps. I have been happy with INavX, but integrating Active Captain and, finally, NOAA and Army CoE <u>vector</u> charts makes me want to give SEAiq a spin. I'll have to see if it gets along well with with MacENC.

edit: I just checked on OS's and saw that he only tested one that was also available for Android. I have to suspect that he has an IPad and the article hardly qualifies to be as a broad review as is implied.

Dave B. aboard Pearl
1982 TR/SK/Trad. #3399
Lake Erie/Florida Panhandle
Edited by - Dave5041 on 05/14/2014 20:24:31

shnool
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Response Posted - 05/15/2014 :  03:44:18  Show Profile  Visit shnool's Homepage
I'd be curious how Navionics stacks up... So far I've found no reason to try anything else. I've used it on android, and iOS. Very stable. Certianly not a cheap alternative.

Only other one I've tried was Sailing Tactician, but that's a different ap.
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TakeFive
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Response Posted - 05/20/2014 :  05:29:24  Show Profile
I am still a big fan of OpenCPN on Windows. It does a great job with NOAA's free raster and vector charts, and displays AIS targets (<u>real</u> AIS from my boat's GX2150 receiver, not the dangerously unreliable MarineTraffic internet wannabe AIS). With the emergence of budget-priced Windows 8 tablets, it becomes really viable as a competitor for the other iOS/Android software. I've been using it this season in my cockpit with a Lenovo Miix2 8" tablet that I bought over the winter.
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