BlueMoon said..
For the last few years, I have run iSailor on an iPad2, and have found it very good, detailed, easy to look at and do stuff on it. Have found a few errors though, I was once sailing along the footpath at Tuncurry, and there was an uncharted rock off Bustard Head light, right on my track that would ave been disastrous, if I wasn't keeping a lookout.
i made a one off payment of about $55 for the East coast, I think it's now an annual subscription, since Transas sold it to wartsila.
as a back up I also have Navionics on the phone, which I use if I'm not sure of something. Someone showed me navionics with the "community edits" function, that shows detailed depth contours, I was quite impressed with that.

Karsten said..
A few votes here for OpenCPN, and some for Navionics.

I understand that you get chart data included with Navionics and that is really what you pay for periodically.

But those using OpenCPN (and there are a few here), where do you get reasonably up-to-date Aus East coast chart data, and what does it cost once-off or periodically ?

Shanty said..




Bustard head. That would either be inner rock, middle rock or outer rock. I will have a look on mine.

BlueMoon said..




It's the drying rock 3/4 of the way from Inner Rock to Middle Rocks, I've just had another look at it on iSailor and to be fair, it was my user error, I missed the underlined depth that was in red on the iPad screen in daylight, I would have liked a rock symbol, or different colour background denoting something, just reminded me that you need to be careful.
im interested what yours shows Mick,
cheers

wongaga said..
I have been using OpenCPN with CM 93 charts for about 6 years, first on a netbook and now an android tablet.

cisco said..

I have the CM 93 charts for the world on CDR.
I am thinking that I should be able to copy them to lap top and then copy them a Micro SD with a reader and then put the SD card into the tablet then point Open CPN at the folders.

Would that work??

BlueMoon said..






It's the drying rock 3/4 of the way from Inner Rock to Middle Rocks, I've just had another look at it on iSailor and to be fair, it was my user error, I missed the underlined depth that was in red on the iPad screen in daylight, I would have liked a rock symbol, or different colour background denoting something, just reminded me that you need to be careful.
im interested what yours shows Mick,
cheers

cisco said..




Hi Graeme,
I have the CM 93 charts for the world on CDR.
I am thinking that I should be able to copy them to lap top and then copy them a Micro SD with a reader and then put the SD card into the tablet then point Open CPN at the folders.

Would that work??