Do you use paper charts??

We have both standard paper and chart books aboard, and use the books often.

That said, we do most of our planning in MaxSea Time Zero on the home PC (with dual wide screens) or on the boat laptop.

Then when underway we also use the actual NN3D plotter plus two tablets, usually MX Mariner on one (raster charts) and Plan2Nav on the other (C-Map vector charts).

Active Captain -- which isn't really a charting package but still provides very useful "guide" info -- is integrated into MaxSea, Plan2Nav, and MX Mariner.

-Chris
 
I really like paper, especially for the overall picture, but for real time close quarters navigation I can definitely see e-navigation as a real help. I use both, but then when I started I used Loran, now that pretty much dates me for sure.
 
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Originally posted by pdecat

Had an experienced friend cancel his participation in a club cruise because his plotter had quit. What made it even stranger than not relying on paper charts was that he had been on the same route previously. The trip only required one segment of five miles of so out of sight of the next mark.. Seems the almighty electronics are becoming as important as engines starting to some people.

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I don't really fault him. If that was his normal means of navigation, and it left him without any electronic nav or positioning source, maybe he was trying to break the mishap chain before it snowballed. I'd never fault someone for making the decision to NOT go - at least not a recreational boater that has that decision to make.
 
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