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Fugawi Marine ENC

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At last FREE marine charts!

• Free, vector-based charts now available for FUGAWI Marine ENC navigation software.
  

• Boaters and sailors have been craving an affordable marine software package, with which they can use free marine vector charts. The wait is now over with the release of FUGAWI Marine ENC software.
  

• FUGAWI Marine ENC software runs on a PC or laptop and, when connected to a GPS, allows boaters to navigate in real-time using a choice of map formats including the new, free-of-charge NOAA ENC vector charts or the inland waterway IENC charts.
  

• FUGAWI Marine ENC also contains the features that made the original FUGAWI famous, including: moving map navigation using industry standard charts such as MAPTECH®, SoftChart®, and NDI Digital Ocean®; easy point-and-click route creation; and GPS upload and download of waypoints, routes, and tracks. FUGAWI Marine ENC is also the only marine software package to come standard with software for both Pocket PC and Palm O/S PDA devices. FUGAWI Marine ENC will transfer rasterized charts to a GPS enabled PDA for hand-held navigation.
  

• Further, the boater or sailor can control FUGAWI Marine ENC Software to toggle the display of soundings, lights, or text as and when desired to de-clutter the screen. FUGAWI Marine ENC will display safe navigation areas in a different color from shallow areas based on the user's setting for vessel draft. Also, the user can change the soundings units from meters to feet. The following illustrates how the display can be altered for a shallower-draft vessel:
  

• The chart can be queried with a click to display detailed information on buoys, lights, caution areas and other navigational features. The area being querried is highlighted on the chart. For example the chart on the right shows how a depth area is highlighted when it is queried. Some charts include images of features such as bridges.
  
• NOAA ENC vector-based coastal and harbor charts, developed by the Office of Coast Survey and NOAA to support the marine transportation infrastructure and coastal management, have been developed in the International Hydrographic Office S-57 format. The catalog of these harbor and coastal charts is continually growing, and better yet, the data and subsequent updates are available free-of-charge.
  
• Inland-Waterway Electronic Navigation Charts (IENC) have been developed by the US Army Corps of Engineers. As with the NOAA ENC, the current IENC catalog, and expanded coverage and updates are available free-of-charge.
  
• All FUGAWI Marine ENC products are supplied with currently available coastal NOAA ENC Charts and Inland IENC charts on CD-ROM. Users can download expanded coverage and updates from www.fugawi.com at no charge.
  

Current US ENC Coverage

FUGAWI SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

• Windows 2000 or XP or Vista or Windows 7
• Pentium processor or better
• 64 mb RAM
• 256 color display or better
• 30mb on hard drive
• Mouse or other pointing device
• Serial port for GPS receiver (WIll also work with PCMCIA serial port emulation or USB with serial adapter)
• CD ROM for USA map data (or 650mb on hard drive)
• Program provided on CD

GPS RECEIVER REQUIREMENTS

• GPS receiver with NMEA 0183 output
• Serial port or PCMCIA emulation for GPS input
• Upload and download of waypoints, routes and tracks with popular GPS receivers. Click here to view our GPS compatibility table.
• Can be used with Tripmate GPS receiver

New to Fugawi Marine ENC Ver. 4.5x:

• 3D map viewing. Allows one to see a "ships-eye" view of the land using any NOAA ENC®, BSB, or Softchart nautical chart as well as other Fugawi supported raster charts. The 3D window provides added interpretation when navigating in coastal waters.

• See detailed streets and place names directly on top of ENC or other nautical charts. Get enhanced onshore detail from your ENC charts by overlaying streets and place names.

• AIS - Automatic Identification System Plug in a third party AIS radio receiver to view commercial vessel traffic directly on top of your ENC or other chart.

• Marine Services - Toggle on/off a layer of over 25,000 marine-related points of interest (POIs) from the integrated MPC Boaters Directory: the most comprehensive directory of marine businesses in the USA.
  

• Enhanced and simplified installation, menus and chart management. Fugawi Global Navigator has been dramatically improved to make software and chart installation a breeze. A refreshingly new and simplified menu structure makes the program far more intuitive for new users. An easier to use Map Library helps to keep your maps and charts organized.

• New PDA Edition for Pocket PC and Palm (OS 5 or greater). Adds UTM or Lat/Long position viewing, enhanced route creation, and numerical editing of waypoints to the existing features.

• Lastly, Fugawi Marine ENC Ver. 4 contains all of the features that made its predecessor famous such as point and click route creation, GPS data transfer, on-screen real-time GPS tracking, map printing, street overlay, Geocaching support and much much more. For more details, View the brochure.

Bonus Data Pack DVD:
The Canadian Edition of Fugawi Marine ENC Ver. 4 is supplied with a free copy of the Fugawi Data Pack - Canada, which is supplied on DVD, and contains:

• Fugawi Street Overlay™ of Canada
• Place names of Canada
• Elevation data of Canada
• Nautical planning charts of the USA
• ENC vector nautical charts of the USA
• MPC Boaters Directory of the USA

Fugawi Marine ENC Now Supports Navionics Charts
     

Fugawi Marine ENC now supports award winning Navionics® Gold, Gold+, Silver, Fish'N'Chip and HotMaps® nautical charts.

With the addition of a simple Navionics Multi Card Reader, Fugawi Marine ENC software can now be used at home, at the helm, or below decks for planning, navigating and monitoring your boat's passage using the identical, award winning cartography installed in a Navionics compatible chartplotter.

Fugawi has solved the problem of a single chart standard for PC software — users can now access charts for almost anywhere in the world from a single source, rather than dealing with a multitude of chart suppliers and formats.

Of course Fugawi Marine ENC continues to support the widest range of chart formats including NOAA ENC®, NOAA RNC™, iENC, S-57, Softchart, BSB (MAPTECH®, NDI DigitalOcean®), eTopo, Softmap, GeoTiff, and more, providing the user with a choice of chart supplier.

Benefits:

• Use existing Navionics charts on a laptop or PC computer at the helm or below decks for GPS navigation, route planning, or simply to monitor a passage.

• Similar look and feel of charts on PC as seen on a chartplotter.

• Plot routes and waypoints on the PC and upload to or download from Raymarine®, Furuno®, Lowrance, Eagle, or Garmin chartplotters (requires cabled connection between PC and chartplotter).

• View free GRIB file weather data directly on top of Navionics charts.

• View Navionics charts of US coastal waters in 3D (requires suitable bathymetric data — included in the Fugawi USA Data Pack).

• Tides and Currents support using Navionics charts.

• View AIS targets on Navionics charts (requires suitable AIS radio receiver connected to the PC).

• See detailed streets directly on top of Navionics charts (requires suitable street data — US streets included in the Fugawi USA Data Pack).

• Find and locate over 25,000 US marine services with the included digital MPC Boaters Directory — see these services plotted directly on the Navionics chart

How do I use Navionics charts in Fugawi Marine ENC ?

The Navionics Multi Card Reader (pictured left) is required to load Navionics charts from a Navionics CompactFlash™ (CF), MultiMedia (MMC), or SecureDigital (SD) card into Fugawi Marine ENC Ver. 4.1.

Standard (non-Navionics) card readers cannot be used to read Navionics charts. The Navionics Multi Card Reader requires Windows XP (Home Edition or Pro) running on the PC and an available USB port (high Speed USB is strongly recommended).

Navionics charts must be purchased on CF, MMC, or SD cards from your local Navionics retailer.

Fugawi Marine ENC supports Navionics Gold, Gold+, Silver, HotMaps®, and Fish'N'Chip.