Active Captain on MaxSea/Furuno

[Bruce Moore]

I don't think any Ranger Tugs are equipped with Furuno, but no doubt some of you have experience with the equipment.

But, I am an Active Captain member and I'm quite interested in how their data is being integrated into various manufacturer's offerings. I follow Active Captain developers, Steve and Karen (and their two golden labs) on their blog Taking Paws. Today's update features a video taken at the Miami Boat Show, demonstrating the beta version of MaxSea/Furuno Time Zero integration of their crowd-sourced data.

This thing is amazingly fast, with virtually no time required to redraw (hence "Time Zero") either raster or vector charts. Pretty impressive.

Worth checking out: http://takingpaws.blogspot.com/2010/02/ ... -show.html

cheers

 

[Kamalani]

Greetings Bruce & Vicki - after reading your post, I checked out Active Captain & promptly signed up. What a great resource they have in the works. I just started looking at their blog, but as soon as I saw "Nose to Bottlenose" I had to send it on to both of my sons who sail with their dogs. Thanks for the heads-up on this site. Alex, "Kamalani"

 

[Bruce Moore]

Glad you checked it out. Active Captain is a great resource - and an excellent example of "crowd-sourced" information. I've added several entries myself. And, as you can see by their blog, Steve and Karen seem to be nice folks.

Cheers