November 9, 2011 23:14
Active Captain is the Yelp! of the marine world!!
I just made a trip last month that I had done back in 2004 and a reverse trip of last year. This time, though, I had Active Captain and PolarView on my MacBook Pro. What a huge difference in data, planning and execution! With the ease of updating the Active Captain DB, I was always up-to-date within a couple of DAYS.
Like Facebook, Yelp! and everything else with an online/social media slant, active participation and individual reviews are of critical importance - dare I say, an integral part of the new society we live in. It's this realtime networking and information that is changing everything we know about communication. I love reading the reviews. It's easy to spot trends and sort through what I care about and what I don't. I've added plenty of my own, too (Love that I can do it right from PolarView!).
Good seamanship, redundancy, etc. is critical and should always be preached as a common sense approach. That aside, Active Captain is a GREAT tool!!! I love it.
I just made a trip last month that I had done back in 2004 and a reverse trip of last year. This time, though, I had Active Captain and PolarView on my MacBook Pro. What a huge difference in data, planning and execution! With the ease of updating the Active Captain DB, I was always up-to-date within a couple of DAYS.
Like Facebook, Yelp! and everything else with an online/social media slant, active participation and individual reviews are of critical importance - dare I say, an integral part of the new society we live in. It's this realtime networking and information that is changing everything we know about communication. I love reading the reviews. It's easy to spot trends and sort through what I care about and what I don't. I've added plenty of my own, too (Love that I can do it right from PolarView!).
Good seamanship, redundancy, etc. is critical and should always be preached as a common sense approach. That aside, Active Captain is a GREAT tool!!! I love it.