I agree with Andrew that my IPad is almost indispensable when on the boat, even 
though it is only an IPad Air that is several years old. I often use it to 
figure out how far it is to a waypoint or a port, to determine a course that I 
can set up on the chart plotter at the helm for whomever is at the wheel or 
changing the autopilot, or to get information for a log entry while I am at the 
nav station.

And I use my Dell laptop to run the Active Captain Community while on the boat. 
The laptop connects to  Internet by the mobile hotspot on my phone. The address 
for my Windows PC is https://activecaptain.garmin.com/en-US/. I put the laptop 
into airplane mode to turn off my home network, and could not get to the 
charts, but with the phone hotspot turned on it works just fine.

I find it hard to think that Garmin would offer Navionics or Active Captain for 
IPhone or IPad, but not a version that will work with a Mac and Safari. 

Rick Brass
Washington, NC
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Sent: Oct 22, 2023 1:47 PM
To: Stus-List <cnc-list@cnc-list.com>
Cc: Andrew Burton <a.burton.sai...@gmail.com>
Subject: Stus-List Re: Mac Navigation options?

Dean, I have to admit that I find my iPads almost indispensable. I recommend 
getting one. Make sure you get a cellular capable one&mdash;you don&rsquo;t 
have to activate the cell service but you need to be cellular capable in order 
to get the GPS. Andy
 
Andrew Burton26 Beacon Hill
Newport, RI 
USA 02840
 
+401 965 5260
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On Oct 22, 2023, at 12:23, Dean McNeill via CnC-List <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> 
wrote:


Thanks guys, I checked out both Active Captain and Aquamaps and they only run 
on iPhone or iPad. Really hoping to find something that works on a Mac laptop. 
Have found both OpenCPN and MacENC64 but nautical maps of NovaScotia Canada are 
either unavailable or crazy expensive. 
Perhaps I have to break down and buy an iPad and use either Navionics, 
ActiveCaptian or AquaMaps.
 
Dean   
BarraWind
C&amp;C34
Halifax, Nova Scotia
 
 







On Oct 22, 2023, at 1:02 PM, Joe Della Barba via CnC-List 
<cnc-list@cnc-list.com> wrote:
I love my Aquamap 😊
 
 
Joe Della Barba
Coquina C&amp;C 35 MK I
Kent Island MD USA
 
 
 
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(mailto:cnc-list@cnc-list.com)> 
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Subject: Stus-List Re: Mac Navigation options?

 
I've become a fan of Aquamap, which has Active Captain and Waterway Guide info 
integrated with the charts, which themselves are very good.
Andy

Masquerade (Baltic 47)

 

Andrew Burton
26 Beacon Hill
Newport, RI
USA 02840
http://sites.google.com/site/andrewburtonyachtservices/


phone  +401 965 5260








 


 
On Sat, Oct 21, 2023 at 7:37 PM Rick Brass via CnC-List <cnc-list@cnc-list.com 
(mailto:cnc-list@cnc-list.com)> wrote:

You might look into downloading Active Captain to your Mac, so long as the Mac 
has the ability to determine your position by some sort of connections to a GPS.

I run the Active Captain Community app on my old IPad that is with me during 
deliveries, and also have it on my Dell laptop. (when on a boat the laptop gets 
position info through a link to my android phone)  

I have a Garmin chart plotter on Imzadi and have downloaded the Garmin G2 
charts (which is a personal preference because they use the same color patterns 
and symbols as NOAA charts) to both of my other devices. It all works off-line; 
I can download new areas of the charts I have to the IPad if I will be in an 
area that is not already saved there because of somewhat limited memory on the 
IPad. The laptop has access to the entire North American chart set that came 
with my last chart plotter update.

Garmin also owns Navionics, IIRC, and I seem to recall the choice of Navionics 
or Blue Chart charts is an option for the newer Garmin Chart plotters. You 
might call them and see if since you have the Navionics app and charts on your 
phone you can share it to the Active Captain Community app on your Mac.

Rick Brass
Washington, NC

-----Original Message-----
From: Dean McNeill via CnC-List [mailto:cnc-list@cnc-list.com 
(mailto:cnc-list@cnc-list.com)] 
Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2023 7:42 PM
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Cc: Dean McNeill <d...@deanmc.ca (mailto:d...@deanmc.ca)>
Subject: Stus-List Mac Navigation options?

I have an on-deck ChartPlotter at the helm and while I&rsquo;m a fan of 
Navionics on an iPhone&hellip; it&rsquo;s so small! 

I don&rsquo;t have an iPad or tablet but I do have a great Mac laptop I 
don&rsquo;t use &mdash; it would make a great on-board navigation station. What 
software and charts are good? Navionics on a laptop runs through the web so 
that&rsquo;s not a viable option. I saw OpenCPN but I can&rsquo;t seem to find 
any raster or vector charts for Eastern Canada. 

Anybody running anything good?

Thanks, Dean

&mdash;
BarraWind
1980 C&amp;C 34
Halifax NS
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