Can anyone give me some first hand comments on their experience using
Fugawi Marine navigation software. I have been a long time user of The Capn
and would like to take advantage of the S57 vector charts. I tried a Demo of
Figawi at home and found some of the functions less than intuitive, however,
it may be I am just stuck in a rut with what I have used for so long. Any
comments from experienced users would be much appreciated. I'm willing to
give it another try.
Thank you,
Richard

I'm in the same boat as you. I've been using The Capn for years
with no real complaints. I tried a demo version of FUGAWI
a year ago or so and was unimpressed. Better than Capn in some
ways, not as good in others. I'm still using The Capn and will
probably stick with it.

Doug
s/v Callista

"Richard Cassano" wrote in message
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Can anyone give me some first hand comments on their experience using
Fugawi Marine navigation software. I have been a long time user of The
Capn and would like to take advantage of the S57 vector charts. I tried a
Demo of Figawi at home and found some of the functions less than
intuitive, however, it may be I am just stuck in a rut with what I have
used for so long. Any comments from experienced users would be much
appreciated. I'm willing to give it another try.
Thank you,
Richard

I had Fugawi and gave it up in favor of Ozi Explorer. Fugawi was not user
friendly. Ozi is great. Lots of features and flexibility.I interface with
computer,GPS and autopilot.

Jerry

Jerry wrote:
I had Fugawi and gave it up in favor of Ozi Explorer. Fugawi was not
user friendly. Ozi is great. Lots of features and flexibility.I
interface with computer,GPS and autopilot.

Jerry

I second that. Ozi is the tops.
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Richard Cassano wrote:
Can anyone give me some first hand comments on their experience using
Fugawi Marine navigation software. I have been a long time user of The Capn
and would like to take advantage of the S57 vector charts. I tried a Demo of
Figawi at home and found some of the functions less than intuitive, however,
it may be I am just stuck in a rut with what I have used for so long. Any
comments from experienced users would be much appreciated. I'm willing to
give it another try.
Thank you,
Richard





With FUGAWI you must exit the vector program to access raster charts and
the other way round. I also found it was very slow regenerating S57's.

An alternative is Boatcruiser. It quilts vector and raster. They have a
demo.

http://www.navsim.com/

Saltair

Offshore cruising is the opportunity to fix your boat in yet another
foreign Barbour.

OziExplorer is indeed a good program, and I use it for driving in Baja,
but I'm not sure I'd recommend it for people who have happily using the
Cap'n, or for that matter, boaters. The Cap'n's claim to fame is real
ease-of-use, making it workable for light computer users. Ozi certainly
can be used for marine navigation, but it's a complex program that
works best for people who like a lot of options and customizability.
And to be clear, it doesn't support vector charts, which I believe was
the original poster's attraction to Fugawi. Also, it does not have the
ability to quilt multiple charts together, a feature available in most
of the big navigation products these days.

I recently played with the trial version of Rose Point Navigation's
Coastal Explorer product, and I was knocked out by it's elegance and
simplicity. And it does use those new, free NOAA vector charts. Worth a
look: www.rosepointnav.com

Aaron Tinling
s/v Sweet Destiny
www.navagear.com

On 8 Feb 2005 21:33:45 -0800, "Aaron" wrote:

OziExplorer is indeed a good program, and I use it for driving in Baja,
but I'm not sure I'd recommend it for people who have happily using the
Cap'n, or for that matter, boaters.

I've used Ozi for years on the boat, in an iPaq up top, and laptop
below. Periodically I try out alternatives, but keep coming back to
Ozi. Also use it in the iPaq on driving and other non-boating
vacations.

Jim

I have Fugawi 3 and Fugawi ENC reader. The ability to download
*free* ENC encoded maps is a nice one to have. For that reason, I would
use Fugawi vs others.

I use another charting program made by Maptech, and find it infinetly
easier to use right out of the box. Fugawi needs to desperately get a
bit of user friendly people involved. That is it's main downfall.
Otherwise, it is a good chartplotter program, that stitches nearby
charts together seamlessly, both in horizontal chart to chart mode, and
in the vertical "scale" mode.

You can make your own sketch chart, calibrate it to the program and
other charts, and store it where it can be called up when needed with
the rest of the charts.

Incidently, the Governments collection of S57 vector charts are all
being updated to version 2 or 3 in some cases. Version 2 and above
carries every bit of information that a paper chart equivalent carries,
whereas version 1 has filtered some details out for simplicity sake-no
longer needed. They are all up dated to the latest Notices to Mariners
too..or that is what they say on the web site.

Larry DeMers




Richard Cassano wrote:
Can anyone give me some first hand comments on their experience using
Fugawi Marine navigation software. I have been a long time user of The Capn
and would like to take advantage of the S57 vector charts. I tried a Demo of
Figawi at home and found some of the functions less than intuitive, however,
it may be I am just stuck in a rut with what I have used for so long. Any
comments from experienced users would be much appreciated. I'm willing to
give it another try.
Thank you,
Richard