While CE remains an excellent navigation package, many helms don’t lend themselves to a full-fledged PC. Shortly after I bought my first Great Lakes boat, I bought Coastal Explorer, mostly because of Ben E’s coverage and positive reviews.
Panbo’s relationship with the PC version of Coastal Explorer dates back to Ben Ellison’s 2005 coverage of its public beta. Overall, I found the app easy to use but not as fully featured as some of the more complete chart plotter replacement apps. The app uses the same visually appealling and, in my experience, accurate X-series charts as Simrad’s NSX and B&G’s Zeus S.
But, with auto routing built-in, a decent anchor alarm, trip logging, and other features, it earned a spot in the roundup. C-MapĬ-Map’s app verges on a companion app for Navico brand MFDs. The social features include the ability to find each other on the water, add boaters as friends, and find boaters by yacht or boating club affiliations. They offer a robust search that includes the ability to search marinas by amenities, a tight integration with Snag-A-Slip to streamline the process of booking and strong social features. One of Argo’s unique auto-routing features is the ability to select a preference for running inside via inland waterways or outside via open water.Īrgo has emphasized putting information at the boater’s fingertips. To my eye, that’s a big bite for an app’s early features but so far, the routes Argo generates look pretty good. Argo is one of several more recently launched apps with automatic routing. Argo is a relative newcomer, but they’ve come on strong.
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