Navionics NavPlanner

I just read the hull truth reviews of this product. I am crushed. I have been looking forward to this for so long. It was the last part of the system that gave me everything I wanted. the albaity to plan and plot at home would at least stop the neighbor from staring at me in my boat at mid-night while plotting waypoints. I will now have to wait for a fix or see what the raynav 6. planner will do. I will not (and cant afford to) buy a $600 program like coastal planner.

Pat will you have your system up by lopez? I would like to look at anyones system that will let me. I just dont trust what I read on the back of a box or a web site enought to drop big money. I want to play with it first.
 
I will have Coastal Explorer with me on my laptop, so you can sure look at it and play with it if you like. The chances are slim to none that it will have a cable to talk to the C-80, although I did take Gary's suggestion to email Rosepoint Software and see what they say...


starcrafttom":3q5qd2hv said:
Pat will you have your system up by lopez? I would like to look at anyones system that will let me. I just dont trust what I read on the back of a box or a web site enought to drop big money. I want to play with it first.
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FYI: Raymarine just anounced their Raytech RNS 6.0 software. They are also offering a dumbed down version strictly for route planning for free. This is far superior to the Navionics product as far as I have been able to tell. Actually after playing with it for a bit I am pretty impressed.
 
Not sure if you can transfer Navionics charts to your computer but you can access them in Raytech Planner with a proprietary CF card reader, which I will probably buy, and use them for route planning. However, the package comes with Navionics charts of the whole world sufficient for gross route planning built in, and can install any MapTech BSB format charts it finds on your hard drive, so you don't need the card reader for this to be useful. Anyone who has a Raymarine multifunction display like the C-80 will instantly know how to use the software - it looks like the Raymarine display, right down to the hardware buttons and soft keys. I am with Gary, this sure LOOKS like what the Navionics NavPlanner should have been but wasn't, and for free to boot. I am going to play with it a bit more before posting any more on it. I will save some routes to my CF card and transfer them to the C-80, but that is a couple of weeks out, since Daydream, my C-80 and my CF card are still in Alaska at the moment!


flapbreaker":2l1y8h6p said:
Can you transfer the navionics charts into the Raytech planner ?
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I have a question. As boaters world was closing down, I purchased a 2nd Novionics chip 256MB said to cover Alaska to Baja. I used it in Cathlamet and had good detail in the river. Last weekend though I could get no detail in the river, though I still have detail up north.
So what do I do?
If the chip's data gets lost, will the mfg exchange or restore the data?
I do a bunch of business with WM and purchased my other chip with them, can they fix the problem if I bring the chip in?
 
I have watched a lot of threads with Navionics and generally they do not seem to repair chips for almost any reason but they will allow you to trade them in for a rebate against a new one, but not anything that anyone else wouldn't get, others may know different. Also this is the first time I've ever heard of one losing partial data.

On THT there is a Navionics specific section about half way down the page. A fellow named Jeff from Navionics often answers peoples questions there. I have also received replys to emails from Navionics, just never with the reply I had hoped for. They usually won't even do much for someone who, as an honest mistake, bought the wrong format. Best bet would be WM. I don't think they can fix it but maybe a refund?

And Steve, thanks for keeping my embarrass thread alive! The 09 Hot Maps West has pretty good river coverage, see below.

Chris

09 Hotmaps shots near Col Riv mouth
http://yfrog.com/06p1010604zjx
 
Steve,
I don't which chartplotter you have, but I will throw this out just in case. I have a Lowrance and it uses Navionics chips. I bought a chip that covers Vancouver Island. The chip is a compilation of many different charts and in the menu of the chartplotter is a listing with many different groups of charts. These groups overlap in many areas. When I first started using the chip I thought some of my data was missing because I was on the wrong group of charts. Could this be your problem?
 
Ken, I do not think that is my issue. My unit is a raymarine C120. I had a chip for the Puget Sound and Washington Islands. It is 2MB's. This chip is 128MB's and as I said above, it covered an area of the Columbia between Astoria and Portland shortly after I purchased it. Then, last weekend that coverage was gone and I had no detail at Astoria. This chip also covers BC waters up to Alasks and the west coast down to baja.
My understanding is they started putting more on the chips and it could be that this was done with several files the size of the old chip. I seem to have lost one or more of those files.
 
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