Well,

I have a laptop full of Navigation softwares and many charts of all
types (raster and vector) but I do not use it all the time for
navigation, I use it mainly to plan the routes at the port or navigate
in some easy situations (inshore motoring) and where I do not have the
corresponding electronic chart in the Gps Plotter and I do not have
the necessary paper charts. But do not want to use the laptop on my 36
ft boat when I am sailing at nigth in heavy weather, wich is the
situation I probabily would need an AIS ploter.

I do not know of any other Chart Ploter wich supprts AIS receiver
unless the new Si-Tex units, so I could consider an interim solution
with the NASA AIS Radar, IF it have the NMEA output too. I already
have 3 Gps Plotters from Garmin, so to buy now a Si-Tex would add a
fouth gps/ploter to the boat, wich is not my option.

Regards

Pascal


Holger escreveu:
Well, normally people want either have a stand-alone unit or a black-box
for use with PC. Or do you carry a (high-end) chartplotter and a mobile
PC running vector charts?

Holger

www.yacht-ais.com


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Holger