I've never taken a look at "Coastal Explorer", I'll have to check it
out. How long have you been using it, Rick?

  Everything I do these days is on a Mac, and I simply love GPSNavX.
I looked at RosePoint's site and they do have a Free Trial to
download. I'll have to take a look on one of my PCs (ugh). The thing
that I like about GPSNavX is that you don't need to play around with
it (or read instructions) to figure out how it works... like most Mac
OS-X applications, it's extremely intuitive.

I have a table on my website that lists all of the current products,
with list pricing. One of these days, I'd like to add a features
comparison to it, but that's very time consuming.


Jack Webb
Jack@FreeNavCharts.com


On Dec 5, 2005, at 2:09 PM, Richard B. Emerson wrote:

> Quite simply Coastal Explorer (www.rosepointnav.com) folks rule,
> the rest drool. [grin]
>
> I've used Cap'n (see the archived messages from the old Baba-L for
> some interesting demonstrations of "dealer shoots self in foot")
> and VNS (AKA Nobeltec) (spent, literally, over a year trying to get
> a problem that lead to VNS crashing on two different boats -
> different boat, different GPS, different laptop, different,
> different, different... and third boat came back from the Bahamas,
> ready to toss VNS). I've played with a couple of others but these
> two are the name players. Both programs work (with varying to
> degrees of reliability) but Cap'n wants you to pay through the nose
> to use ENC charts (or use theirs, for a fee) and VNS isn't helping
> either. CE uses ENC charts straight from NOAA (lots of data -
> forget this from a phone line) and they're free (just point CE at
> NOAA, answer the questions, and CE will file everything and clean
> up after itself). CE is feature rich, reliable, and does customer
> support. The documentation needs some work but you can get it up
> and running quickly and just plain playing around with "I wonder
> how you do this" will take you a long way.
> Cheers,
> Rick
>
> Tdgriffin001@cs.com wrote:
>
>> Ahoy Baba maties!
>>
>> All this discussion of electronic charts has peaked my interest,
>> especially since I’ve been contemplating replacement of my “old”
>> black and white display chartplotter with a color version and I
>> already have a fairly new laptop PC.
>>
>> My question concerns experience with the various chart software
>> packages available out there.
>>
>> The Computer Charting Software Update in the May 2004 edition of
>> Practical Sailor was useful, but I’m interested in comments from
>> you Baba-L folks who have used any of them.
>>
>>
>
>
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