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- yachtbreeze - March 19, 2012
Hi.
We are new to the forum and so if this has been answered a thousand times before forgive us.
We have just bought an iPad3 and want to install some navigation software for use on our 40 foot sailing boat.
We have a Raymarine installation providing chartplotter, radar, AIS etc. and so the iPad navigation is a chart-table supplement.
There appear to be three options: iNavX, GPSNavX and Navionics HD.
Which is best for our application?
Does one app do more than the others?
the iPad will be used in Europe.
Many thanks in anticipation.
Trevor & Jo.
- GPSNavX - March 19, 2012
There are at least a dozen marine navigation applications. Each has unique features. None are so high priced that one needs to only choose one.
- antipole - March 19, 2012
Hello Trevor & Jo... welcome to the group.
I have a Mac running MacENC and iPhone with iNavX, and have just purchased an iPad 3 for cockpit use, which will run iNavX. I can thoroughly recommend it. GPSNavX runs on a Mac, not under iOS, so is not relevant. I am in Europe and use the Navionics charts, and find them excellent.
I have no marine plotter, and am not sure how you get data from your Raymarine system, but I guess there are others on this forum who can advise on compatibility issues.
Best of luck, Tony
- Eclipsemullet - March 20, 2012
I would recommend iPad3 with iNavX, due to low power consumption.
Andy
- yachtbreeze - March 20, 2012
Hi. We are new to this forum so apologies if this has been asked and answered many times before but we've not found a similar posting.
We have a new iPad3 which which we wish to use at the chart table. We have a full Raymarine nav installation which is in the cockpit. The iPad is by way of back-up and planning.
It appears there are three front runners for nav software: iNavX, GPSNavX and the new Navionics HD.
We are finding it quite difficult to obtain unbiased reviews of the three packages and so come to a decision on which to buy. Our Raymarine system uses Navionics cartography.
What wold you choose and why?
Many thanks.
Trevor & Jo.
- cnojek - March 20, 2012
INAVX is for Ipad/Iphone and GPSNAVX is for Mac computers, both are navigation software. Navionics HD are charts to be viewed on iPads
- GPSNavX - March 20, 2012
Bump.
- g3vhb - May 3, 2012
Hi,
I am going to get an ipad-3 , just wondering how much memory would be sufficient for marine apps plus charts that most are using these days?
- GPSNavX - May 3, 2012
I recommend the 32GB iPad 4G at a minimum.