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NZ Linz update in the Marine GeoGarage

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NZ Linz update in the Marine GeoGarage

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Whilst planning a trip across the Pacific (Panama to Sydney) I could not navigate on the chart to Norfolk Island (29 S, 167.9 E). Also if I tried to plot a route from Tahiti to Lord Howe the plot went the wrong way around the earth! Any ideas what I am doing wrong?

After 3 month excellent work after upgrade to Maverick
MacENC start load 90+% CPU
Very slow redraw chart, response to menu or window

Nothing change, no internet connection, all another program at the same time work fine

Any idea - what check?

MacENC has a potentially very useful SailTimer function. As I understand it, this is licensed from SailTimer Inc and is a significant and valuable feature.

However, I get poor results with it as my Course Made Good diverges significantly from that predicted by SailTimer. I presume this is because my yacht's polars are different from the default values in the polars table built into MacENC SailTimer function.

Now I have tried recording my actual boat speed at various true wind speeds and angles, but this is very tedious and I get 'lumpy' and inconsistent results. I am searching for a way to create a better polar table for my yacht.

The iPolar app for iOS calculates a polar table based on given boat parameters (boat length, sail area etc.), but this is a theoretical table only. I haven't tried it.

SailTimer Inc have an iOS app SailTimer Charts Edition which has a learning mode, whereby it develops a polar table from experienced data. This would be an excellent way of gathering data for an individual yacht, and worth the in-app purchase cost. In my set up I have NMEA2000 feeding into MacENC, which sends NMEA data over TCP/IP to iNavX etc. However, according to SailTimer Inc, their app only accepts NMEA data using UDP. Their solution is to wait for their new wind instrument which will send data via BlueTooth to an updated version of their app. I do not want to get into installing a new and expensive wind instrument atop the mast just to get a polar table.

If MacENC could send NMEA data over UDP that would open up the possibility to use the SailTimer iOS app. Alternatively, MacENC has all the information needed to calculate polars, but this is not a trivial facility, not least because recording has to be selective to ignore inappropriate times - like motoring into wind. Given the pace of MacENC development, I see this as a non-starter.

Given the focus on iNavX development, recording polars there would make sense, and as iOS devices get used in the cockpit this would be the natural place to control when recording happened or not. However, building a polar table from a series of observations would, I guess, be a major development. [I wouldn't want to distract effort away from MacENC either!-]

Has anyone got a solution to this problem, or advice to offer?

Tony

Is there any other charts than Navionics to be use with inavx In the Bahamas.
Navionics are not up to date at all In this part of the world.

Anyone uses NV charts In the Bahamas?

USA NOAA update in the Marine GeoGarage

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NZ Linz update in the Marine GeoGarage

9 nautical charts updated

I am having trouble with the request GRIB part of MacENC ( Intel MacBook Pro- 10.4 @ 2.16ghtz...)
when I send a request Firefox (3.6) opens up and goes bonkers by opening blank tab ofter tab... scrolling across the screan. I have uninstlled firefox and re-installed a new download of it. I have made my preferred browser Safari and it still opens up with firefox with the same results.
I am hoping to ship out in a week but I cant see leaving without access to GRIB. this is my main system............... solutions please!

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ENC cells from many sources are encrypted. I can now certify MacENC (Version 8.60) is compatible with the new S-63 Permit files in both v1.0 and v1.1.X format.

Note: If you change the Mac you are using the encrypted ENCs with you will need to get a new Permit file from your Chart provider using the new User Permit that is displayed in the MacENC Chart Manager.