Cutting through the Keys

There is PLENTY of water there for your boat. The dog leg is a lot wider than it looks.

Follow the waypoints on the paper chart........ The problem with people on Active Captain is they follow their GPS which the charts are all off....... I've taken 90' MY's through there with no problem.

Active Captain is not as good as it used to be. It's value was always in the fact it was crowd sourced with lots of current updates, now not many updates.

But even in its best time, as a power boater you had to use with caution. Sail boaters are more comfortable bumping their keel, or even getting hung up for a few hours than I am with running gear.

Guessing that what you are seeing is that there is still a few people updating information in Active Captain, but nothing like before.

I was an early adopter of Active Captain, then Blue Chart which was the first pad/phone integration of Active Captain. I have purposely retained an old ios version on my iPad just so I could still go into Blue Chart. From what I heard an ios upgrade would render it unusable.

Started messing with Aqua Map and Navionics a couple of years ago, but still would go to Blue Chart to check tides, currents, or previous routes I had saved.

I have now decided Aqua Maps is my future. Finally I am giving up Blue Chart (and going to upgrade my iPad).

One of the key features with Aqua Maps is the overlay of Corp of Engineers survey data. Years ago prior to a major trip north or south I would actually download survey data, print it out, and keep in a binder on the helm. My preference is always to run outside, but if forced into the ICW, the surveys were very helpful.

Now two things have occurred. I get the surveys via an overlay on the chart in Aqua Maps and CoE is much more aggressive in doing surveys (better data). If a person is ever on the ICW the survey data has impact.

Does anyone remember bob123? He posts route files on the internet for problem areas on the ICW. Tremendously helpful. Aqua Map with overlays are just as impactful.

I use Aquamap in the states and Bahamas. I like it, only gripe I have is the color shading, the 2 different blues are really hard to differentiate in sunlight at a glance. The old Garmin app was the absolute best, but long gone.