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Mac Software for Captains

Discussion in 'Yacht Captains' started by Mike448, May 3, 2009.

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  1. Mike448, May 3, 2009
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    Mike448

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    I am a big Mac fan and am slowly changing my "office" over to Macs. A big drawback with Macs has always been the limited amount of Marine software available for Macs.

    Besides your basic Office software, can you guys/gals post info about Navigation, Weather and Yacht Management software that you have come across for use on Macs?

    I do know that you can run Windows programs on a Mac using programs like Parallels, but in my view that defeats the object of switching to Mac, so lets keep this thread about Mac dedicated software.

    To start off with, I have found and used MAC ENC which is a reasonable ECDIS program:
    http://www.gpsnavx.com/MacENC/

    Cheers
    Mike
  2. PropBet, May 3, 2009
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    A couple of months back, Passage Maker did a pretty decent review of several off the shelf, and open source charting packages. I seem to remember that they plugged a few mac compatible programs.

    May be worth a look if you can find it online, or perhaps a hard copy somewhere.
  3. Mike448, May 20, 2009
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    Thanks, I will look for it