I installed an E7 on Alera to interface with my ST60 stuff and a
converter cable was needed to link the older seatalk to the newer
seatalk. It was irritating but not too complicated, mostly just a
little head scratching and an additional spend. That said, I rarely
use the E7, except for backup. I rely on my iPad, which I mount in a
watertight bag on the pedestal running Navionics. I also run
Navionics on my iphone. Our adventures are limited to the SOunds and
straights here in the PNW, So, line of sight is also there as
well. Not sure I would be OK on a long ocean trip, but for what we
do, it's fine.
My original iPAd did not have wireless. I bought it for charting and
was disappointed to learn it had no GPS and calculate location be
triangulating cell towers which was useless on the water. So, I
found the DUAL external GPS. It is blue tooth and samples all
available satellites. It is much more reliable and I still use it if
precision is needed. I do my preplanning on my laptop. I used to
use a copy of Chartplotter Pro. It allowed for tagging way points to
current makers which allowsw for aa fairly decent ETA
calculation. With currents running at 6 kts at some spots, a real
boon to planning. Unfortunately the company went out of business and
that application does not work on anything later then XP. So I have
been using the Navionics PC application for planning and then doing
the current analysis manually.
I then set the route and way points in the app on the ipad . Then
manually set the autopilot from waypoint to waypoint or steer
manually. We always keep an eye on the water due to the tides around
here throwing out hull busters every cycle. The other feature I use
even trip uis the tracking. I turn the track on as we leave the dock
(which drives my wife crazy) and then end it once we have tied
up. It provides distance, speed and time (which I then use to help
monitor fuel consumption) of each trip. This works great for us
because all of you trips (so far ;) ) are day trips of no more than 8-10 hours.
Tom B
Tom Buscaglia
SV Alera
C&C 37+/40
Vashon Island WA
(206) 463-9200
www.sv-alera.com
At 10:05 AM 1/17/2014, you wrote:
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Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 13:03:31 -0500
From: John Russo <johnrussob...@optonline.net>
To: cnc-list@cnc-list.com
Subject: Re: Stus-List Chartplotter Question
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Steve,
I had a similar need with my E-80 and installed a Raymarine A50 at the helm
but had to also install a converter for sea talk to sea talkNG so the units
could talk to each other. You may not have to do this with the E7. See
arpeggio1984.info web site under projects 2013 for further details.
John
Arpeggio C&C 32
Norwalk CT
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