Steve,
You may want to try my "Sailbase" program. It does support the standard
NMEA, Garmin and Furuno protocols for uploading to GPS of waypoints and
routes.
From what I understand you do not need all the functionallity in the program
(it is a passage planner), but at least you can use the waypoints and routes
administration and upload part of it.
You can download Sailbase from my site www.sailsoft.nl for a free trial.
--
Rgds,
/Ger Rietman
www.sailsoft.nl




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Furuno is *not* standard NMEA. It has its own protocol for uploading
waypoints to it, kind of similar to NMEA, but not compatible. Software
that
has not implemented the Furuno protocol will not work, no matter if it
supports NMEA or not.


Hmmm! That doesn't sound very encouraging..

I think the problem in the protocol is the comments fields that are
created
when the waypoints/routes are created. The Cap'n seems to have some way to
deal with this from what I have seen.. Won't know until I give it a try..
I
do know that The Cap'n does work with the comments, etc. Just not sure if
the formats will be compatible.

I purchased my GP32 on line and I expect it in a couple days..

Thanks for the heads up

Steve

I was just reading the GP32/37 manual last night and I did notice the
warning that it would erase all the waypoints an routes in the GPS.. Then
I
got to figuring, I'm going to download the waypoints to the Nav Program
anyway and when I upload, I will be uploading all of the old waypoints
plus
those I have modified/created..