NavMan GPS for laptop

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lyle-t

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Hi All,
For my birthday my :love wife bought me a NavMan gps for pc. it works with my laptop so I can have it in my car or boat and use the 15 inch laptop screen to see where I want to go :arrow: and find my way back :mrgreen: . I loaded a picture of it in Scorpio album. It is so good it can show me when I change lanes on a four lane highway. It cost about $135.00 which is about the same as a small hand held that I cannot see well enough to use when driving. It is powered by hooking the laptop into a cigar lighter and the unit hooked it into the USB port. The unit attached to the windshield with a suction cup. Lyle-t
 
Hi Stevej;
My Nav Man uses Rand Mcnally Delux street finder which also shows rivers, lakes and the sound. I have used it in the truck and plan to try it in the boat soon. In am still learning how to work with it but so far love the way it shows where I am. Thank you for that link to the GPS info. Tomorrow I am going to Hoodsport to play with the Chum salmon again. I brought a couple home a few dqys ago and smoked them. They turned out much better than I had expected. Now my sister and her family want MORE MORE. When the wind calms down here I am going out toward Nissqualy and try for the blackmouth that are supposed to be in there. Hope to see you out fishing soon.
Lyle
 
I'm hooked on the electronic charts and chart plotting functions. I can plot routes review fishing drifts and play around any time by booting up the laptop.

Have not used it in the truck yet but will soon.

Salmon is over around here but we did have a great year. Never caught a chum before. Bought my boat from a gentelman in the hood canal area need to make a trip that way in the future.

Good luck with the weather and fishing

stevej
 
Well my wife bought me the Maptech Marine Navigator and I got a great deal on a used toughbook, I am almost in business!
I just need to decide on a GPS for the laptop and find a good mounting bracket for the truck and the boat.
Stevej has the Ram mount I think... What are you using Lyle? Stevej, what would you do different?
These charts are amazing and I can't wait to use them.
 
I have a little GPSMAP76, Garmin BlueChart software and the cable (unfortunately a serial cable rather than USB). You just click the button onscreen for realtime tracking, and voila. The BlueChart software is very cool, waypoints, routes, tracks, etc. Have hooked it up and played with it on land but never used it on the CD22 - the laptop did not really fit conveniently anywhere. I was also worried a bit about the laptop being on a hard surface while we took any pounding at all. So how do you deal with mounting and protecting the laptop? I really would like to use this as a backup to the Raymarine system I will have on the new boat, and I always have the laptop along anyway.
 
Hi Ray,
I do not mount my laptop on the boat but lay it on the berth and prop it up with my extra cloths and stuff. So far it has not moved or tipped even when hitting some pretty heavy wakes and waves.
I do not travel fast when useing it because there is usually
fog or it is dark when I really need it on. Also I want it to be able to just unplug the power and take it with me when I leave the boat to keep light fingers from walking off with it. Are you going to make it to Cathalamet? Hope to see you there,
Later Lyle
 
I use Maptech Marine Navigator on my Ipaq PDA with a Navman 3450 antenna sleeve. Works great and mounts right on the dash. I do all my chartplotting on my PC at home and sync the routs before I leave.
 
Pat Anderson":2gzs9n64 said:
I have a little GPSMAP76, Garmin BlueChart software and the cable (unfortunately a serial cable rather than USB). You just click the button onscreen for realtime tracking, and voila. The BlueChart software is very cool, waypoints, routes, tracks, etc. Have hooked it up and played with it on land but never used it on the CD22 - the laptop did not really fit conveniently anywhere. I was also worried a bit about the laptop being on a hard surface while we took any pounding at all. So how do you deal with mounting and protecting the laptop? I really would like to use this as a backup to the Raymarine system I will have on the new boat, and I always have the laptop along anyway.
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I thought about that and opted for a Panasonic toughbook. It is dust and water tight nd will stand up to what the environment will dish out. They are being used by the military and several marine professionals. I bought mine used and have been very happy so far. It has a touchscreen that might make working with the charts much easier on the boat. I am just starting to play with it now.

Lyle, I hope to make Cathlamet. I have my fingers crossed.

Catdogcat, do you like the software? I think my toughbook will survive better than my Dell Axim5 and at my age I need the bigger screen. What I am especially excited about are the bathometric charts. Too cool.
I still need the GPS unit, an inverter, and a mounting bracket but I am most of the way there.
 
Maptech makes great software and you can't beat the detail level of the NOAA charts. I love using it. My only complaint is that is a bit difficult to use the stylus while the boat is pounding. I do bring my laptop aboard with me as well but have not found a usefull place to put it to use it as a gps. If you guys find a high quality gps antenna that can be placed outside the boat, please let me know. Also I guess it would have to be USB or serial.
 
If this the The CAPN Mosaic, this puppy lists for $429 - and it appears the available maps don't include anything north of Puget Sound - is this what you have? Or is your software something different? Notice the lack of a "T" in CAPN Mosaic...



stevej":2i3o5l6z said:
Lyle I have the PCMCIA Navman and use "the Captn" navigation software. Love the big display also. Still working through a couple of bugs but think it's worth the effort.
check out http://gpsinformation.net/ lots of utilities and info

stevej
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Hello,

First post here as I don't yet have a C-Dory. I've been looking at software to run with my work laptop since I picked up the MS Streets and Trips that came with the GPS puck from work. So far the software I think I will purchase for this task is from Rose Point Navigation and is called Coastal Explorer. This seems like pretty nice software from playing with the trial version. It works great with the free NOAA ENC charts. I'm amazed at the stitching abilities of it as well.

I've also downloaded Fugawi Marine ENC and have a trial of Capn. I can't get the Capn version to work. Every time I try to load a chart it crashes. The Fugawi is pretty simple to use and seems to be a good product but I like the interface of Coastal Explorer better. I've yet to actually get on the water with it but hope to this weekend.

For a decent looking antenna you might want to look at http://www.deluoelectronics.com/catalog ... -p-71.html. BTW: They also sell the same item on EBay for considerably less than they are their main website. I haven't tried one of these but plan to when I make my specialized computer for the boat.

Now if I could just talk the wife into the CD 25 I would be set!
 
OK, the Rose Point package costs $300 but the charts are free, a pretty big plus compared to the others. Does any other computer software use these free NOAA charts? Is there a free reader program or something?

I guess I will download the Rose Point trial edition and give it a look-see...


gljjr":1tclv998 said:
So far the software I think I will purchase for this task is from Rose Point Navigation and is called Coastal Explorer. This seems like pretty nice software from playing with the trial version. It works great with the free NOAA ENC charts. I'm amazed at the stitching abilities of it as well.
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The Raymarine C80 is my normal plotter/nav setup, but I also have a laptop with Maptech Marine Navigator - it's terrific software. I usually use it with some other software for surveying, and wired a separate GPS feed out of the C80 for the laptop. When not in use, the cable is coiled up behind the dash, along with the rest of the wiring.

I kept the dash area in the center (above the entrance to the v-berth) free when rigging the boat, specifically for the laptop. Haven't yet figured out where to mount a compass as a result, but have a handheld just in case. Have done many hundreds of hours on this and other boats with the laptop - although we survey at slow speed, we get smacked periodically by large wakes, and of course run fairly fast through chop to get to survey areas. I usually just put the laptop on a towel or flotation cushion if necessary, and have never had any problems.

Will see if I can post a pic or two, if I can get a gallery set up.
 
I'm going to jump into this forum because you guys seem to have the answers to some questions I have regarding my gps setup.

I am putting a Raymarine C-80 system on our boat. I also have a Garmin 76C handheld that I will use as a backup. With the old Garmin 2006 that I'm replacing, I just bought the map chips for the areas in which we boat. The downside of that was that I couldn't plan a trip at home on my computer. I would like to be able to plan a trip and build routes with waypoints on my home computer and then transfer that information onto the Navionics Gold chips that we'll use in the C-80. If possible I would also like to put the same info into the 76C.

What software, processes and connectivity do I need to accomplish this? Will the results be the same as building the routes directly on the C80? Thanks for any help you can give me on this.
Lyle
 
Me too. Yeah, what Lyle said. Same GPS going on the Anna Leigh and I would like to do the same. Pat on Daydream understands this stuff. And he will have the same also.
 
Yup, I'm watching this thread closely too. We'll have the C-80 system and I've decided to buy an IBM Think Pad to use for plotting way points.

I just need to know how to make it work.

Law
 
Yeah, I wish to heck I knew about this...you can plot waypoints and routes on your computer with the Bluechart maps and Mapsource software and download maps, waypoints and routes to the Garmin GPS chartplotters. I have no idea whether the C-80 has a similar ability...If anybody really knows (Les?) I would really like to know. This is really the best way to plan trips, data entry is so much easier on a computer than the chartplotter. This COULD tip the scales back to the Garmin 3006, who knows?


Anna Leigh":1up3qp9i said:
Me too. Yeah, what Lyle said. Same GPS going on the Anna Leigh and I would like to do the same. Pat on Daydream understands this stuff. And he will have the same also.
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