[jharadon]

I'm running a Powerbook G4 (powerPC chip), 1.67 Ghz, 2 GB of RAM. It's about 6 years old, but still runs like a champ.

I'm looking for vector chart options. I have MacEnc. I can't purchase Navionics charts because you need an intel chip to run them.

I've used Navionics gold charts to get from San Francisco to Australia, but the (newer) computer they ran on belongs to a crew member who is leaving. Their one stop packages were great to know that you had the coverage for the area you purchased.

Where else can I buy charts from that has a decent interface to buy lots of charts? I'm a cruiser and looking to purchase overview down to harbor/berthing level charts from Sydney up the Australian Coast to Papua New Guinea and on to Thailand.
As far as I can tell, Chartworld's interface is terrible. Their chart manager would be great but it is a PC program. Can't use it. Do I really have to find every chart I want one at a time, and then just wonder/hope that I got them all?

I looked at the IC-ENC website and found their cataloge nearly unbearable to use as well. Perhaps a slow internet connection contributes to that, but it's really not usefully easy to use.

Can anyone help me with a suggestion or plan?

[jharadon]

Someone was able to e-mail me offline, don't know why it didn't show up here as a reply to the post. They suggested using X-traverse.

Unfortunately, X-traverse is not useful because the navionics charts will not work on a computer with a PowerPC chip. X-traverse won't even recognize purchased navionics charts to allow me to download the charts. I've worked closely with the guy at X-traverse and he just said flat out, 'it won't work. you need an intel chip for navionics'.

Any other options or companies who sell charts?

JONATHON

[FF44]

Chartworld's interface is terrible. Their chart manager would be great but it is a PC program. Can't use it.

You can use the Primar Chart Catalog in order to prepare your charts to buy in ChartWorld Shop. It is a Java program that works on any OS.