POSSE PERK: ๐Ÿ—บ๏ธ Free aid to navigation

150 Gb OpenCPN satellite charts (mac/pc/android)

PLUS vetted tracks to safe anchorages

Ocean Posse member SV Whirlwind’s navigation station prepping to enter Raroia, Tuamotus.ย  Three data sets: Radar (top left), Navionics with satellite overlan (bottom left), & OpenCPN (Bottom right) with vetted tracks overlayed on satellite chart to follow safe route through the Raroia Atoll in the Tuamotus.

Open CPN is a chartplotter navigation software that allows mariners to upload multiple charts and satellites images that can be overlayed on one another to confirm what one sees (or does not see) with the chart.ย  It is a huge departure from the days of early explorers that navigated by compass, distant accounts, clouds, and stars.ย  Open CPN takes navigating to a whole different level filled with information.ย  Ocean Posse members have access to relavent Open CPN Charts and Files that aid navigation and keep vessels and crews safer on the water.ย  SV Whirlwind used Open CPN above to navigate an entrance through a passage in a reef into an atoll.

They went from this:

Outside the Atoll the open Ocean

To This:

 

Mike setting floats on our anchor chain in Raroia, Tuomotus
Bliss

Ocean Posse members have access to Open CPN Charts, tracks, and How to Seminars

STAY SAFE AND NAVIGATE WITH CONFIDENCE

*IMPORTANT OpenCPN Version 5.10.0 was released August 10, 2024*

5.10.0 is a service/maintenance version to 5.8.4.

OpenCPN 5.10.0 series contains some new features and improvements “under the hood”. Many of these changes make OpenCPN work even better.
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Among them are:

– Grib plugin adds direct GRIB file download capability from multiple online resources.
– Enhanced native NMEA2000 network interface capability from numerous third party gateway devices.
– Update core wxWidgets support to wx3.25.
– Full support for Flatpak on virtually all linux distributions, for both x86 and Arm64 architectures.
– Native support for generic Debian linux distributions, particularly plugin system.
– Improved OpenGL graphics support and performance on all platforms.
– Incorporated extensive user feedback to resolve various UI flaws and functional errors.
– Improved embedded User Manual, mirroring evolving online Wiki presentation.
– Improved reliability and stability across all platforms.

It can be downloaded at https://opencpn.org/OpenCPN/info/downloadopencpn.html