Harvey, MacENC supports Mr. Tides, an open source OSX compatible
program. I haven't used it as tides are not a big issue on Lake
Michigan. Our waters change in much less predictable ways!

http://homepage.mac.com/augusth/MrTides/

It is based on XTides

http://www.flaterco.com/xtide/modes.html

pretty cool

Phil
Adoxographi

>Hi Phil, Any prospects that MacENC will include Tides and Currents?
>regards, Harvey
>----- Original Message ----- From: "Philip Iannaccone" <pmi@northwestern.edu>
>To: <baba-l@ballreich.net>
>Sent: Monday, February 19, 2007 6:13 PM
>Subject: Re: [Baba-L] Greetings from Luddite Corners!
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>>About 5 minutes, Rich. It is completely intuitive, it
>>automatically interfaces with the free NOAA vector maps and a
>>really cool feature is a toggle that puts the raster data (paper
>>charts) right on top of the more data rich scalable vector charts.
>>My brain still needs to see a traditional chart. I got an
>>independent USB GPS antenna for cockpit use....at the nav station I
>>connect my Garmin (with its fixed external antenna) through a
>>serial interface into a USB socket (Garmin does't support MACs but
>>Mac ENC takes the NMEA output anyway). The program will
>>automatically connect to the weather service of your choice and
>>overlay GRIBs on the chart and I haven't gotten this yet but it
>>will support AIS as well. I am going to get an AIS receiver as
>>soon as the boat is in the water this year. I should get lots of
>>practice with it on Lake Michigan, my marina is next door to a big
>>gypsum plant!
>>
>>Phil
>>
>
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