December 6, 2009 10:18
my 2 penn'th...
I know a lot of commercial fisherman, all use maxsea, sometimes with olex as well
as far as TZ versus the older maxsea (V12) goes, none off em will touch TZ with a barge pole. A few have installed it and within weeks gone looking for a second hand version of maxsea or re-installed their old maxsea
reliability is one big issue I'm aware of. I've heard It gets flaky and dog slow once you start racking up lots of routes/waypoints/tracks or start overlaying extra data from GRIB/AIS/Radar etc & the bathymetric sampling of vector data for 3D and grabbing of your own sounder data for 3d is prone to error as well
opening multiple chart windows of the same chart at differening pulls it down as well, especially if you are mixing rasters and vectors
some of these trawlermen have every track from 7 or 8 years of trawling going in the old maxsea, and any number of charts - even their old kingfisher/decca stuff and it never misses a beat
The pre TZ versions of maxsea will open virtually any chart format you can throw it as well
as for dongles. as far as I'm aware the version of TZ furuno are flogging in the UK requires a hardware dongle (although you can get around it with a sentinel dongle emulator)
I've installed it on a mac under parallels and it runs fine.
I think its all too easy these days to get 'feature fever' with new boaty toys. If you are definitely going to use all the extra features of TZ versus MacENC then fair enough.
Panning zooming speed is hardly an issue IMHO. When your cruising along at say 8 or 10knots, how often are you actually going to be fiddling with a plotter, zooming in and out panning around charts and the like
I know a lot of commercial fisherman, all use maxsea, sometimes with olex as well
as far as TZ versus the older maxsea (V12) goes, none off em will touch TZ with a barge pole. A few have installed it and within weeks gone looking for a second hand version of maxsea or re-installed their old maxsea
reliability is one big issue I'm aware of. I've heard It gets flaky and dog slow once you start racking up lots of routes/waypoints/tracks or start overlaying extra data from GRIB/AIS/Radar etc & the bathymetric sampling of vector data for 3D and grabbing of your own sounder data for 3d is prone to error as well
opening multiple chart windows of the same chart at differening pulls it down as well, especially if you are mixing rasters and vectors
some of these trawlermen have every track from 7 or 8 years of trawling going in the old maxsea, and any number of charts - even their old kingfisher/decca stuff and it never misses a beat
The pre TZ versions of maxsea will open virtually any chart format you can throw it as well
as for dongles. as far as I'm aware the version of TZ furuno are flogging in the UK requires a hardware dongle (although you can get around it with a sentinel dongle emulator)
I've installed it on a mac under parallels and it runs fine.
I think its all too easy these days to get 'feature fever' with new boaty toys. If you are definitely going to use all the extra features of TZ versus MacENC then fair enough.
Panning zooming speed is hardly an issue IMHO. When your cruising along at say 8 or 10knots, how often are you actually going to be fiddling with a plotter, zooming in and out panning around charts and the like