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Charts of the world

 
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£34-99

Charts of the World CD - CM93 (£34.99) Qty

When you arrive in the Mediterranean or the English Channel, at the end of your canal trip, you have very big areas of sea to cruise.

 

This Charts of the World CD contains C-Map type charts of the entire world including passage charts and detailed harbour charts for the Mediterranean Sea, English Channel, Solent, North Sea, USA, Canada and all the the rest of the world. They join up seamlessly and you can zoom in or out from an ocean to a detail in a port or marina - anywhere.

 

You can plan your passage in detail to or from the Channel Ports and then to or from Port St Louis, Sete etc to anywhere in the Mediterranean or indeed the World

 

If you have a laptop with  Charts of the World - CM-93 installed and you buy a little GPS puck receiver from Maplin - http://www.maplin.co.uk/module.aspx?moduleno=256536  for about £20, Charts of the World will also do the navigation for you. 

Display your position on the chart in real-time, display your actual Lat & Long, speed over the ground, ETA and your real time exact position on the chart - exactly like any other chart plotter.

 

You can sit at home, with the system installed on your laptop, plan your routes and stopping places. If you put your cruising speed, draft etc into its data bank the display will warn you of running aground or simply tell you how many hours it will take to get from waypoint to waypoint or the entire proposed voyage.

Take the laptop to your boat, plug in the GPS puck and you can navigate along the pre-planned route with your position displayed on the chart plus Lat and Long on the side panel...

 

 

I came from Australia back to Europe via the Red Sea, using a similar system.  It allows you to print out charts, so you are not 100% reliant on electronics which you should never be.

 

 

 

Courtesy of the American Freedom of information act

 it also contains all the NOAA sailing directions for the Mediterranean area. 

If you are heading out to the Pacific it has the 12 months of Pacific Ocean Pilot Charts. There are numerous other USA government pilotage and navigation publications included in a bundle

 

£34.99

Charts of the World CD - CM93 (£34.99) Qty


Digital vector charts are used on many commercial and SOLAS class vessels in large, sophisticated chart plotters called ECDIS this version runs from a PC instead of a dedicated ECDIS. Vector charts are far superior to raster or BSB ect.. as they are fully digital not just scanned images.

 

The charts can be viewed, printed and routes planned using the planner program provided while still onshore and used on board you boat for live navigation or control an autopilot system using the software and charts supplied.

 

It includes fully functioning navigation software that can make way points and plot you position in real-time as well as most features that a standalone GPS has and is extremely accurate. The amount of detail is amazing. Great for yachts and larger boats where a PC can be installed or even on smaller boats where a laptop or tablet PC can be used.

 

  • Multi Language installation

  • Waypoints can be entered manually and full details entered.

  • M.O.B function

  • Supports many other inputs such as LORAN-C, D-GPS, electronic gyrocompass, autopilot system, speed data input , NAVTEX, doppler sounder, and other standard NMEA devices

  • Anti-grounding function (software allows input of ships dimensions)

  • Functions such as ERBL and tidal predictions

  • Day, Night and dusk viewing mode

  • Additional c-map planning software allowing printing of charts to paper or PDF and planning  of voyages

  • Latest update included

  • User manual included in digital format

 

Will work with most PC connected GPS's that output standard NMEA sentences at 4800 baud (USB or serial ones are best but Bluetooth will work as well but tend to dropout occasionally due to general radio interference and can be difficult to set up)GPS puck receiver from Maplin - http://www.maplin.co.uk/module.aspx?moduleno=256536  for about £20.

 

Works on laptop or desktop PC, has been tested successfully with Windows 95/98/2000/XP.

 

Also tested with Vista but some newer graphics cards when used in Vista seem to have some compatibility problems with some menus but nothing major that a computer tech couldn't fix

but

can’t guarantee it with vista.

 

Amongst the additional items on the CD are:-

  • Navigation manuals/directions/guides

  • Nautical calculators

  • Anchor rope calculation program

  • World port index

  • Offshore Cruising Encyclopaedia

  • International code of signals

  • Library of nautical symbols

  • Sight reduction tables

  • Port distances

  • List of Lights

  • Radio navigational aids book

  • Copy of the Practical navigator book (it will answer any technical question you may ever have about sailing navigation)

 

£34-99

Charts of the World CD - CM93 (£34.99) Qty

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Since the release of windows XP SP3 some problems have arisen, To try and combat this we have released an update which addresses three problems that we are aware of. click on the link below.....
 

Link to C-Map Patch

or below

http://cmap.hookedonfishing.net.au/cmapupdate.exe