The free all-in-one ActiveCaptain™ app provides a powerful connection to your Garmin chartplotter, charts, maps and the ActiveCaptain community for the ultimate connected boating experience. Wherever you are, you’ll have unlimited access to your cartography, be able to purchase new maps and charts, and have access to the Garmin Quickdraw™ Contours Community. Connect to the ActiveCaptain community for up-to-date feedback on marinas and other points of interest.
Smart notifications¹ on your chartplotter screen keep you connected with everyone else. Plan a trip or pre-fish a lake, and ActiveCaptain will automatically sync with your chartplotter.
Even view and control your chartplotter from your smartphone or tablet while you’re on the water.This app is not recommended for non-Garmin chartplotter owners and is not intended to be a standalone navigational app. Captain Hample, Very Important and ValuableI am professional captain I move vessels from the US Virgin Islands to Maine. The Active Captain helps me find places to stop and what’s available when I get there! It is a perfect planing tool for a captain.Only one down side and the reason not 5 star.
The new mobile app does not have the ability to record a track. The old Blue Chart Mobile could and has many tracks I laid down.
Jul 26, 2011 I wondered if anyone has any practical experience of the 'Homeport' software from Garmin. Garmin support say that it is the only way to transfer data (including charts) from their chartplotter to a PC - in this case a 551. At extra cost of course. If it really does give the ability to use the charts at home for passage planning and then transfer all the needed data to the plotter then the cost.
I could always refer back to good water. Not all vessels use Garmin for their main navigation system. I’m never without a backup system.
Garmin please add tracking on the mobile side of active tracking, or help me if I’m missing something.Captain Fred. DW701, Room for improvement, but not badFirst, if you’re not pairing this with a Garmin chartplotter, don’t even bother downloading.
I had Bluechart prior and that was a fantastic standalone program. That program was the reason I bought a new Garmin chartplotter in the first place. I still keep it on my iPad for reference.
This is designed for use with a Garmin compatible chartplotter.The main issue/problem with this is how slow it renders the maps when you open the program. They claim the map has more detail but it still shouldn’t take almost a minute to fully load. I’m running this on an iPad Pro and reloaded the program in an attempt to correct. Cut down map detail and size of downloaded charts, still slow.When using Active Captain from the app, you can only read 10 reviews of a location, some outdated. To see all the reviews of a location/anchorage, you have to go to the Active Captain WEB site. A problem on the water without internet connectivity and even if you had WiFi, you’re switching between programs.This app has a lot of great features when paired to the chartplotter, like updating maps and software, controlling chartplotter from iPad, however until they fix the painfully slow map loading speed, it only gets 3 stars.Let’s hope they keep updating the App and improving. JME-NC, New Port Cove Marine Center in Riviera Beach FLWe just spent 2 weeks at New Port Cove at Lake Worth Inlet and couldn’t be more pleased with the service, location, and personnel.While waiting for a crossing window, we had some repairs done to our trawler and provisioned for a 3 month trip to the Abacos.We were an easy walk to Boat Owner’s Warehouse, Publix, BBT bank, Walgreen’s, multiple sport fishing stores, and Auto Zone and a cheap Uber ride to Walmart.
The surrounding neighborhoods have seen tough times but we were met on our dog walks through them with consistently friendly people, multiple home and property renovations, and a huge presence of Rybovich boat yard’s expansion.GM Jim Nester is doing a great job updating the marina and getting (and keeping) enthusiastic and helpful staff.This was our second stay, and we will definitely be back. With all that and a 15 minute trip to Lake Worth Inlet, what more could you want? CompatibilityRequires iOS 10.0 or later.
The Garmin HomePort software is now a free download.I have been using HomePort for years and find that it is a great route planning tool. It is much easier to use my PC or Laptop to plan a route. Copy your route to a SD card and load into your plotter.
I also export my routes in.GPX format to use in the iNavX iPad app. The Active Captain website can also import/export GPX route files, if you copy or create a route on the Active Captain web site export as GPX then import into HomePort. You can then transfer to a SD card for your chart plotter.Howard Posts: 453 Joined: Mon Feb 28, 2011 10:31 pm City: Warwick State/Province: RI Non-Ranger Model: 2008 Nordic Tug 37 Vessel Name: Catnip MMSI Number: 368024230. Howard,I am slow in understanding the steps I need to follow to add this to my Garmin.I have an iPad and imagine I need to do the route there first?On my iPad I currently use Navionics, (altho Rose Point seems to be what travelers in Alaska are using, along with ferries and I think I heard other large boats.)(I am not using Active Captain yet, with so little knowledge.)What is the SD card that I need to copy the route onto? It must fit into the slot where I have the chip, correct? Does it then integrate with the chart plotter so it functions with whatever chip I have in?Any clarification will be helpful, and thank you in advance! Hi Anne,HomePort runs on a Windows or MAC PC/Laptop.
You can use it to create a route or view/edit routes that you have created on your Garmin chartplotter. Routes and waypoints are transferred to/from Homeport and your chartplotter using a SD card (or chip). On your chartplotter this is the same place that you insert a Garmin map, such as a G2 Vision chart. I have a separate SD card that I use to transfer between my chartplotter and laptop, I temporarily remove the Garmin G2 Vision card to transfer routes. Once transferred into the Garmin Chartplotter routes are stored internally and you can put your G2 Vision or other map chip back in.I personally find it much easier to use a PC/Laptop with mouse to create my routes. I also use HomePort to export my route to a format that can be imported by iNavX on my iPad.
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I have also transferred routes to/from the Active Captain web site, again using the GPX format. GPX is a standard format to transfer routes/waypoints- many programs, apps, and devices support it.HomePort supports Active Captain so you can download the database and have all of the markers available while planning your route.It can also use your Garmin map, I loaded my Garmin 5212 base map onto a SD card so it would be available when planning routes. If you do not load a Garmin map into HomePort it will use a crude map without any depth data, buoys, or other nautical information. You only need to do this once, I use the same SD card to transfer routes. Posts: 453 Joined: Mon Feb 28, 2011 10:31 pm City: Warwick State/Province: RI Non-Ranger Model: 2008 Nordic Tug 37 Vessel Name: Catnip MMSI Number: 368024230. Hi Mike,Yes, HomePort needs a map. The built in map is low resolution and does not include nautical features.
When I first used HomePort (over 3 years ago) I copied the 5212 built in map to a SD card for use in HomePort. I still use this card to transfer routes to the 5212.
I do not remember the procedure but it was only a few screen taps on the 5212 to copy the map.Howard Posts: 453 Joined: Mon Feb 28, 2011 10:31 pm City: Warwick State/Province: RI Non-Ranger Model: 2008 Nordic Tug 37 Vessel Name: Catnip MMSI Number: 368024230. Knotflying wrote:Howard,I have not really used Homeport. Am I correct in saying that you have to first download a chart and can it be from one of the SD cards we have from the chartplotter?Just to add to what Howard rightly posted. I just did this process. Depending on what map (s) you have on your plotter, take a blank SD card of at least 2 gigs, formatted for MS-DOS Fat, even if you use a Mac yes.
Insert into the Garmin plotter. I have the 7212. Go to transfer data, it will ask you if you want to transfer the map data to the card?
On mine, this took about 30 minutes. I found that I do have to insert the SD card with my maps into my laptop each time I use Homeport. It does not copy, at least my maps onto my hard drive. Not a big deal. Designate a card for this purpose and just keep using it.
Back and forth. Posts: 6 Joined: Sat May 10, 2014 4:50 pm City: Arnold State/Province: MD Non-Ranger Model: Cutwater 28 Vessel Name: Into The Mystic.
Auto-guidance is a feature that allows you to enter a destination on the chartplotter and it will figure out your course and then you engage your autopilot to follow that route. You need to purchase the chip for particular locations to be able to enable auto-guidance. For the cost, I just manually enter my routes.Routes are those that you enter and save. You select a saved route and then once on the screen you can select engage route on the autopilot menu.You can create routes on Homeport on your computer and then transfer those routes to your chartplotter.Hope this helps. I started out creating manual 'route to' routes as well but over time I have found the 'guide to' (auto-guidance route) feature is so handy that I almost exclusively use it now. There is no additional cost and no need to build the routes in advance.
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Just find where you want to go on the chart plotter screen (any navigable point within set up parameters works) and hit 'guide to' and you are good to go. The key is to set the system to use a safe minimum depth (I use 15 feet) and use the 'farthest' from shore setting. If it cannot resolve a route with these settings then I choose a point just prior to the challenging area and navigate manually through that area. I wouldn't be comfortable using auto-pilot in such areas anyway.
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Also if there are sections of the route that I don't like then again I just manually navigate through those parts. These instances are usually pretty rare.
Thanks, that's what I was hoping to hear.I agree the auto-guidance is a very convenient and handy feature. My reason for creating a handful of more detailed predetermined routes is when we're not necessarily going from point A to point B, but doing a a scenic loop where we hug the shoreline in a more nuanced way and end up where we started, hitting a a couple points of interest.Also, my one complaint with the auto-guidance routes is you end up going right down the middle of more narrow passages as opposed to staying to the right. Unendliche geschichte epub file. Perhaps you can make the argument that one shouldn't use autopilot in a more narrow passage anyhow, but I'd like to start with a more workable path on the right and override as needed. We're on lake union so we see this a lot going through the fremont cut, montlake cut, under 520, etc, and also in salt through swinomish channel, deception pass, agate passage etc.thanks for the tips!