Posted on the opencpn it look complex but it is really easy and charts produce can be corrected and notes put on them , they can be used on a Windows laptop as opencpn can be run on a Windows laptop.
Yes thanks for that. We have a traveller and tend to lock it of on the boom side when we are going down wind . Touch wood we have never had a crash gybe, and rarely sail by the Lee except in light winds also straight down wind is also rare, a preve…
Opencpn is available windows Mac and Linux.
And android
Windows available here . There is also a comprehensive manual. And 40 plugins.
https://opencpn.org/OpenCPN/info/downloads.html
once you have put all the calibration points in you can use as many as you need to take out photo distortion.
Then you activate the grid . If all the chart info is input Yoo can save the calibration.
Which creates a file in the same folder call CH…
Well to start creating a chart from a digital photo, first get your photo . I am using a Samsung A70- most android phones will do. However I don't use the stock camera app It does not have the controls , it can be used but it causes complications . …
Before I tell how to change photos ( .jpg pictures are ok)into working raster charts next couple days . I will mention a couple more features that opencpn contains.
Routes and waypoints and tracks . It is easy to create waypoints, and routes and …
Have had a look at the Neptune planner app .
It looks good but my ship , intact a couple of ships will have to come in for me to afford that at the min . We are the church mices fleas at the minute!
I have a raspberry pie 3b not set it up yet. Im playing with it on a virtualbox running on linux using raspian at the min fully intend to set it up for the boat .
Oh just realized that the grib weather files plugin is only
On the paid for app . …
The thing is with the android app you just set the area, (changing the colours and sizeof info is poss).
Request the grib download and it overlays the file is saved so switching it's display on or off is just a tap on the menu arrows the grib downlo…
Well we headed on past Camaret -sur-mer where we planned to visit again on the way back , going across Douarnenez bay .
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Which was a bit of calm before a force 6 sea breeze set in in the last hour before arrival , I would have t…
Couple of picture of where I put the exhaust and the controller. Was on the boat during storm Ciara . So didn't go into locker to take pics .
My welded up double exhaust is not the neatest . The only 316 I had was some 2 in tube so I cut a piece a…
It was November 2018 I rigged it temp up in the cockpit with the exhaust running out of the back of the .
Cockpit past the outboard the black tube was the hot cabin air output it was only in use like this for a day .
To find out how the heat would …
By the way the new one coming out of China heats both air and water. Though a few people have fitted exhaust to water heat exchangers. I'm looking at that option to heat a small water tank for the heads.
Our heater cost about 150£. I fitted it int a 22in partially stainless tool box so I could transfer it between achillea and out westerly, but have fitted the box into the port quarter locker back in Oct 2018 but have only fitted the exhaust prop…
Too lat to advise but normally a crossed boom crutch is used and the mast rests in the boom crutch an the tabernacle , care with the roller foil tie to the mast in several places it is a good bit longer than the mast so additional support of 2 by…
We have a Yamaha 25 on achillea. Works great never cavitates , it was an xx long 30 inch from new , we added a 5 inch extension from a company in Florida 369£ . It took a hour to fit while in the back of a volvo estate in Padstow carpark! So its…
We had the rudders made to an svg file by lakeland steel in Cumbria cost £124 for both including delivery is included laser profiling. We paid £ 100 for galvanising at a place in chesterfield from ordering to arrival was 5 days..
The next job …
We have just fitted new lift up rudders with trim tab fittings to connect to our st1000 . It has alway worked when attached to the centre of the rudder bar but it struggles in seas over 1 1/2 meters. The new rudders have a modified shape which have …
We left Treguier on fri 20th and moved to St Aubins bay moving into st helier marina on saturday for 2 nights .Jackie has never been to channel isles befor , so we wanderd st hel' and caught a bus to the north and La Corbier. Moved to st peter port…
