Derek Turner wrote:
> On Sat, 03 May 2008 09:03:51 +0000, Dennis Pogson wrote:
>
>> Derek Turner wrote:
>>> On Fri, 02 May 2008 12:21:23 +0000, Dennis Pogson wrote:
>>>
>>>> Derek Turner wrote:
>>>>> Any comments/recommendations for a handheld plotter suitable for
>>>>> coastal dinghty sailing please?
>>>>
>>>> I use a Garmin GPSMap 60CS with Bluecharts Atlantic and find it
>>>> excellent.
>>>>
>>>> Dennis.
>>>
>>> Thanks for that. Could you check for me that the UK base-map
>>> includes the Channel Islands?
>>
>> The base map is pretty useless. You have to buy the Bluecharts
>> Atlantic CD to get the detailed charts, which makes it rather an
>> expensive aquisition.
>>
>> The above CD contains all the charts from Spitzbergen to Capetown,
>> N-S and from India to Greenland E-W, excluding the US coastline.
>>
>> Like Keith, I have to ask why you need such a device for dinghy
>> sailing?
>>
>>
>> Dennis.
>
> Lots of rocks and a 40-foot tide: I really would like to know
> /exactly/ where I am at all times. Hoping maybe to sail to
> Guernsey/Sark and the Contentin peninsular eventually. Who knows, St
> Malo is only 33 nM away! Quite apart from which my TomTom is useless
> here as Teleatlas have not mapped the CI's whereas Navteq have so it
> would double as a turn-by-turn in the car. That's why I asked you to
> check if they were covered in the base map. I meant the road map
> rather than the nautical chart! Will it direct you (say) from Saint
> Helier to Grouville?
I have e-mailed you a screenful of the Bluecharts Atlantic chart for this
area. You are talking big bucks, but you seem quite determined to find the
best navigation software regardless of cost.
You can zoom in until you can see the pontoons in the marinas using such
software.
Hope this helps!
Dennis.
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