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Comprehensive electronic charting system with digital charts, bathymetric data, and aerial photos. GPS and autopilot interface, tide and current prediction, route creation, voice alerts, and more. Operates on a Windows PC. Full-featured or limited versions available.
[Nautical Technologies, Bangor, ME, USA]
PC-based navigation software that blends raster and vector chart layers with aerial photo charts, weather data and satellite fishing maps. Can be connected to radar, fishfinder, and other instruments through SeaTalk network.
[Raymarine Limited, Portsmouth, Hampshire, UK]
High-end electronic chart display and information systems from developed in Russia. It integrates electronic chart data with positioning and navigation systems, including GPS and radar/ Automatic Radar Plotting Aids (ARPA).
[Transas International, Cork, Ireland]
Standalone plotters as well as systems that will combine with radar and sonar.
[Simrad, Kongsberg, Norway]
Windows-based plotting software designed for commercial use. Will interface with navigation instruments. Can display either vectored or raster scanned charts.
[Sea Information Systems, Aberdeen, AB10 6UR, Scotland]
Laptop or tablet PC software for creating and managing your routes and real-time tracking. Includes a dead-reckoning feature and AIS tracking of other boats. In beta testing as of 10/11/04.
[Barco Software, LLC, LaCrosse, WI, USA]
Plastic protractor-type instrument that solves the classic TVMDC problems. Converts magnetic courses and bearings to true, including variation and deviation corrections. Also converts relative bearings to true bearings and calculates set and drift. Video on the subject also available.
[Navigation Aid, Mesa, AZ, USA]
Review of one chartplotter, with a table comparing features with similar products from Northstar, Navman, Furuno, and Standard Horizon. 3 pages.
[Practical Sailor, 15 February 2004]
Custom installation and retrofits of navigation electronics from a wide range of manufacturers. Projects include many large yachts. Will sell hardware, sell hardware with technical drawings for those wishing to install the system themselves, or do it all.
[Custom Navigation Systems, Inc., Westbrook, CT, USA]
Onboard computer systems for vessels. Including the SeaPC line of computers and sunlight readable SeaPC LCD monitors. VEI also markets the Transas electronic charting software that works with ARPA radar and runs on a VEI computer.
[VEI, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA]I was looking at the GPS interfaced with the electronic chart display instead of watching where I was going. I knew exactly where I was on the earth but not where I was on the water.
Richard Hazelton
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