AC is particularly helpful with destination planning but the part I miss on my chartplotter is the anchorages and hazards which include shoaling and Nav-aid errors. Additionally, with active captain integrated into the chartplotter I would be more likely to update those pieces of information. As it stands I can mark the hazards with waypoints but then have to transfer that info later...Which never happens.
E-boat cards is an extension of AC which broadcasts your location to your boating friends...and their's to you. Again this is something that would be nice to have at the helm. Another technology that is on the horizon which may or may not yet be integrated into ANY chartplotters is SignalK. SignalK doesn't just allow you to wirelessly view all of your own ship's info but theoretically allows your info to be shared to the cloud and others in real time. We're talking wave heights, depth, current, wind speed, wind direction, barometric pressure, air temp, and water temp. Imagine being able to see instantly the conditions which others were experiencing! Does anyone know if any of the current chartplotters allow importing of GRIBS? What about importing the free vector/raster charts? >From my research, all of the above features are either available or being worked on in the open source world of OpenCPN, Openplotter, or Navigatrix. A marinized, 12v, touchscreen, monitor can display all of this at the helm. Josh Muckley S/V Sea Hawk 1989 C&C 37+ Solomons, MD On Jan 12, 2016 10:36 AM, "Joel Aronson via CnC-List" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Edd already has the Ray autopilot. I find Active Captain useful for planning, but don't use it at the helm. That's just me. > > B&G apparently is adding ethernet ports to their units which will make it easier to integrate with PCs etc. NMEA 2000 makes stuff slightly less proprietary, but you may not get full function on other brands products. > > Joel > 35/3 > Annapolis > > On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 10:23 AM, Josh Muckley via CnC-List < [email protected]> wrote: >> >> As a huge fan of Active Captain. I urge you to both try AC and verify that your prospective chart plotter/MFD works with AC. >> >> I too looked at the Raymarine MFDs and talked to one of their sales reps at the Annapolis Boat show. I was disappointed with the lack of open source compatability. It seemed like a collection of solid products that integrate really well with one another to create a lot of powerful features. Unfortunately, it appeared that a lot of those powerful features where lost if the individual components were not matched with other Raymarine products in the same vintage. So, as long as you buy the entire package and plan to keep the entire package (auto-helm, chartplotter(s), radar, network, remote apps via phone/tablet) together as a system (more or less forever) then it will probably be fully satisfying. >> >> My experiences with technology have been that anything proprietary eventually goes out of style. I said this about the iPhone 30 pin connector and now look at all the car stereos and home audio accessories that no longer integrate as beautifully as they used to. >> >> YMMV >> >> Josh Muckley >> S/V Sea Hawk >> 1989 C&C 37+ >> Solomons, MD >> >> On Jan 11, 2016 1:11 PM, "Edd Schillay via CnC-List" < [email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Listers, >>> >>> So I was at the NY Boat Show this past weekend and took a good look at the Raymarine e-Series (specifically the e9 one). Built-in GPS and data display of other information hooked up to the system (including my new Raymarine EV200 autopilot.) >>> >>> Does anyone have one? Pros? Cons? The price seems very low given all it does, especially compared to the cost of my current Garmin GPSMap2006C. >>> >>> >>> >>> All the best, >>> >>> Edd >>> >>> >>> Edd M. Schillay >>> Starship Enterprise >>> C&C 37+ | Sail No: NCC-1701-B >>> City Island, NY >>> Starship Enterprise's Captain's Log >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> >>> Email address: >>> [email protected] >>> To change your list preferences, including unsubscribing -- go to the bottom of page at: >>> http://cnc-list.com/mailman/listinfo/cnc-list_cnc-list.com >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Email address: >> [email protected] >> To change your list preferences, including unsubscribing -- go to the bottom of page at: >> http://cnc-list.com/mailman/listinfo/cnc-list_cnc-list.com >> >> > > > > -- > Joel > 301 541 8551 > > _______________________________________________ > > Email address: > [email protected] > To change your list preferences, including unsubscribing -- go to the bottom of page at: > http://cnc-list.com/mailman/listinfo/cnc-list_cnc-list.com > >
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