http://www.macsailing.net/fbb/showforum.php?fid/9/Forum dedicated to Windvector's PassagePlus navigation softwarenoneFri, 01 Aug 2008 05:15:12 GMTFri, 01 Aug 2008 05:15:12 GMThttp://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rssFusionBB 2.2 (www.fusionbb.com)http://www.macsailing.net/fbb/showtopic.php?tid/542/http://www.macsailing.net/fbb/showtopic.php?tid/542/
The main new feature is compatibility with the Australian Hydrographic Service's Seafarer RNC charts, the official raster charts of Australian waters. Both the 'Chart' and 'Update' services are supported. Four Seafarer charts have also been added to the demo charts collection.

I also finally 'got round to' implementing a feature requested by one of this site's users, namely that when the chart is set to scroll with the boat you can now drag the chart to put the boat wherever you like in the window (ie, it doesn't have to be centred). Thanks Ron!

A more obscure feature that might interest the real blue water sailors is that you can now input a manual datum shift if you want to plot your track using GPS on one of the few charts that doesn't have built in shift information for adjusting to/from WGS84.

There are also improvements to chart loading procedures and the Chart Manager interface, plus various more minor improvements and, of course, bug fixes.

As ever, it can be downloaded via http://www.windvector.com/passageplus/downloads .ht... or using the Check for Updates function in PassagePlus.

Good sailing
Jon ]]>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 04:25:54 GMThttp://www.macsailing.net/fbb/showtopic.php?tid/528/http://www.macsailing.net/fbb/showtopic.php?tid/528/http://www.hydro.linz.govt.nz/charts/raster-navcha...
The forthcoming version of PassagePlus will allow you to install charts directly from the downloaded folder. The current version (v1.5.0) assumes that CDs will be used. So to take advantage of this price in the meantime you need to burn the downloaded files to CD. Just unzip the download and then drag all the CONTENTS of the folder (NOT the folder itself) to a blank CD and burn it. ]]>Sun, 06 Jul 2008 07:21:26 GMThttp://www.macsailing.net/fbb/showtopic.php?tid/432/http://www.macsailing.net/fbb/showtopic.php?tid/432/Tue, 29 Jan 2008 07:42:21 GMT