Danny Purchase Navionics Boating HD for your tablet while it is still available. It is supposed to be discontinued very soon and may have been discontinued already
We have a Garmin GPSMAP 740 at the helm. It is extremely useful when going anywhere and on the size boat you are purchasing is almost a necessity. A tablet in the cockpit is not nearly so robust and very prone to breakage and power loss, especially in any sea condition We just returned from the Bras d'Ors Lakes in Cape Breton, NS. The total return delivery was approx. 170NM. I have a Windows Surface 2 (RT version) with the Boating HD app. This in fact is now permitted to be on board in place of paper charts as is the same charting information. We also had all the paper charts along the way and also a Raymarine A65 small chartplotter at the Nav station. For plotting my courses I used the Surface tablet and then noted each of the waypoints and plugged them into my chartplotters. I found using the tablet for course plotting extremely useful and much simpler than the paper chart with dividers etc ... I also found that having the waypoints in my chartplotter at helm almost a necessity. My 0.02 Mike Persistence 1987 Frers 33 Halifax, NS From: CnC-List [mailto:cnc-list-boun...@cnc-list.com] On Behalf Of Danny Haughey via CnC-List Sent: Tuesday, September 08, 2015 6:04 PM To: cnc-list@cnc-list.com Cc: Danny Haughey Subject: Stus-List Windows laptop for chartplotter? Hi Guys, The boat I'm in the process of buying does not currently have chartplotter. Instead of rushing into the purchase of a new one for the delivery home I was thinking to use a windows tablet with an external GPS antennae/dongle and charts loaded from someplace to be determined. I think I'd get a cheap handheld garmin as well. GPS store has one for $169. I have windows tablet with the specs of a laptop. i5 processor and 4gb ram and I have an older android tablet with decent specs for it age. Is this a viable option to at least get the boat home and try and find a good deal on a plotter over the off season? It would also be a carry on and use and alleviate the need to install anything before the trip. Any and all advice is always appreciated! Danny Still headed toward a closing Massachusetts
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