+3 for Garmin. Love it! Regards, Randy Pickelmann Morning Star lying Calvert Marina, Solomons, MD

I run both Garmin Blue mobile and Navionics on my I-pad. BM for active Capt. Navionics for navigation. Blue mobile requires a new chart purchase to update while navionics has free updates for a year and better cartography and features especially on the inland waterways. Navionics was the only cartography that displayed the un-numbered buoys on the rivers with 80% accuracy. Garmin, Nobeltec, Coastal Explorer, NOAA, COE charts don't display these buoys? Go figure. YMMV. Joe Pica M/V Carolyn Ann GH N-37 http://carolynann-n37.blogspot.com/ MTOA#3813, AGLCA #5485

My experience has been that I have only had to pay for Garmin updates annually. Intermediate updates were no charge. Has this changed? I don't know about the river system...I never go there. I have noticed that some times on the ICW the buoy (and other) data is not available if you are zoomed out too far. Does it show when you zoom in? I normally run my Raymarine C-120 plotter split-screen and there are many more buoys and other features zoomed in to 1-1/2 miles than six. Regards, Randy Pickelmann Morning Star lying Calvert Marina, Solomons, MD Sent from my iPad > On Jun 17, 2015, at 6:01 PM, joseph.pica@gmail.com wrote: > > I run both Garmin Blue mobile and Navionics on my I-pad. BM for active Capt. Navionics for navigation. Blue mobile requires a new chart purchase to update while navionics has free updates for a year and better cartography and features especially on the inland waterways. Navionics was the only cartography that displayed the un-numbered buoys on the rivers with 80% accuracy. Garmin, Nobeltec, Coastal Explorer, NOAA, COE charts don't display these buoys? > Go figure. YMMV. > > > Joe Pica > M/V Carolyn Ann GH N-37 > http://carolynann-n37.blogspot.com/ > MTOA#3813, AGLCA #5485

Randy, Garmin BCM has no free updates (except for Active Captain data). iTunes wants their cut. Joe Pica M/V Carolyn Ann GH N-37 http://carolynann-n37.blogspot.com/ MTOA#3813, AGLCA #5485 > On Jun 17, 2015, at 6:08 PM, Randy Pickelmann <rwp_48@yahoo.com> wrote: > > My experience has been that I have only had to pay for Garmin updates annually. Intermediate updates were no charge. Has this changed? > > I don't know about the river system...I never go there. I have noticed that some times on the ICW the buoy (and other) data is not available if you are zoomed out too far. Does it show when you zoom in? I normally run my Raymarine C-120 plotter split-screen and there are many more buoys and other features zoomed in to 1-1/2 miles than six. > > Regards, > Randy Pickelmann > Morning Star > lying Calvert Marina, Solomons, MD > > Sent from my iPad > >> On Jun 17, 2015, at 6:01 PM, joseph.pica@gmail.com wrote: >> >> I run both Garmin Blue mobile and Navionics on my I-pad. BM for active Capt. Navionics for navigation. Blue mobile requires a new chart purchase to update while navionics has free updates for a year and better cartography and features especially on the inland waterways. Navionics was the only cartography that displayed the un-numbered buoys on the rivers with 80% accuracy. Garmin, Nobeltec, Coastal Explorer, NOAA, COE charts don't display these buoys? >> Go figure. YMMV. >> >> >> Joe Pica >> M/V Carolyn Ann GH N-37 >> http://carolynann-n37.blogspot.com/ >> MTOA#3813, AGLCA #5485