"Dennis Pogson" wrote in message
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Dave wrote:
On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 15:19:33 -0500, "Len Krauss"
said:


Would appreciate hearing about anyone's experience with SeaClear,
pro and con.

I've been messing around with it for only a couple of weeks, so take
it for what it's worth.

The only negatives I've found (given that it's a free program) are
that the documentation is a bit Spartan, and that in using the route
function in DR mode you have to enter your DR course in true, rather
than magnetic, even if you have set the options to show headings in
magnetic. That can get a bit confusing, since if you're in magnetic
you have to mentally add your local variation in order to actually
steer the course you've entered.

I'm sufficiently impressed to plan on using it for navigation next
summer. I would be interested in a comparison of the relative merits
of SeaClear and the shareware program from Oz (the name of which
escapes me at the moment.)

I switched to Oziexplorer from Seaclear about 4 years ago and haven't
regretted it.

Ozi's functionality and many more useful options swung it for me, but if
you
want a simple basic nav. program you can learn in a couple of hours, go
for
Seaclear.

I have, in the past couple of years, downloaded the latest versions of
Seaclear and tried them, but it just doesn't compare with Ozi.

Dennis.


Dennis,

Do you have an opinion about Nobeltech's program?

-Greg