Real nautical charts on your Palm device

You already have your Centro or Treo phone with you. Why not use it to display real nautical charts?

• Quick, simple user-interface.
• A chartplotter for your dinghy or for backing up your main navigation system.
• Explore harbors you'd like to visit
• Plan your cruises anywhere, anytime.
• Load one region file and you have every chart for that region - not a subset - EVERY chart.
• Incredibly fast panning and zooming.
• Instant chart display and switching - more/less detailed chart with one button press.
• Chart rotation to keep GPS cursor in upward direction.
• Use keys on the keyboard or the device to select common commands.
• Double-tapping the screen centers chart.
• Double-tapping outside a chart boundary opens adjacent chart.
• Accurate distance measurements.
• Chart List dialog provides list access for picking a particular chart.
• Chart Details dialog displays full name, scale, region, and revision of the chart.
• Regions are updated every 6 months with no charge for updates.
• Charts are stored on the memory card for ultimate expansion.
• 2GB memory card holds all charts for US East Coast; 4GB memory card holds all charts for the entire US (>2,000 charts).

Routes and waypoints provide navigation capabilities

Pre-plan your course of travel by creating any number of waypoints and routes. These navigation objects are displayed over the nautical charts and are completely integrated into the entire ActiveCaptain Mobile application.

• Quickly create waypoints on charts to mark a specific spot.
• Draw routes to plan travel passages between harbors, along a coast, or between coasts.
• Import & export waypoints and routes to other software programs.
• Drag waypoints and routes to accurately position them.
• Edit any of the waypoints or routes in multiple ways - even by entering specific latitude/longitude positions.
• Measure route lengths to determine time requirements and fuel reserves.
• Route following with automatic waypoint advancement.
• Locking of waypoints and routes to avoid accidental changes.
• Dialogs for listing waypoints and routes in alphabetical order.

Adding a GPS is easy and provides many more features as a full chartplotter

Although you don't have to have a GPS with ActiveCaptain Mobile, adding one provides more capabilities. With a GPS you can see your position on the nautical charts. This gives you a real moving map chartplotter using real nautical charts with the waypoints and routes that you've created.

• Supports all Bluetooth GPS devices allowing you to add a GPS inexpensively.
• Provides extensive data display in Data Boxes showing multiple items and assisting in your navigation.
• Allows you to "lock" the GPS cursor in the center of the screen with Follow Mode. As you move, the chart will pan underneath the GPS cursor and the GPS will stay in the center.
• Quickly move into Follow Mode with one button press.
• Rotates the chart displayed as the GPS reports your changing course. This allows you to keep the GPS cursor pointing upward.
• GPS status display showing satellites being used to acquire the position and their signal strengths.
• Quickly add a waypoint at your current GPS position. This is an excellent way to mark a position to remember or to mark an anchor location.
• GPS cursor color changes to provide notification about the status of the GPS signal.
• An excellent way to keep an anchor watch by monitoring your GPS distance from the place where you dropped your anchor.

Connects with the ActiveCaptain web site for accessing marinas, anchorages, and local knowledge.

With an Internet connection on your Palm device, you can now access all of the marinas, anchorages, and local knowledge markers from anywhere. Not only will you have a complete navigation system in your hand, you'll also have an electronic guidebook with tens of thousands of markers and reviews being updated by over 8,000 captains.

• Supports all ActiveCaptain marker types - marinas, anchorages, and local knowledge.
• Accesses every detail available for all markers (more than 100 fields for each marina).
• Accesses every review available for all markers.
• Shows you all of the markers on the nautical charts along with your GPS positions.
• Inlet markers provide extensive information about a cruising area.
• Automatically calls a selected marina (after confirmation) by pointing to the marker.
• Provides all "star" ratings - immediately see what others think about the marina or anchorage.
• Shows anchorage ratings for current, wind, wake, holding, shopping, and scenery.
• Look up marina slip and fuel prices.
• Get information about upcoming bridges (height, restrictions, type of bridge, etc).
• Displays boat ramps in your vicinity.
• No extra fees - it's the best cruising guide you can find because the data is always being updated.
• Find positions by location, marina name, or waterway mile marker (ICW) and automatically displays the appropriate nautical chart.