Great Loop: Cruise Planning Tools
Cruise Planning Tools We are currently doing the Loop and in the Chesapeake Bay Area. With this page I will try to summarize the tools we use when planning our Great Loops travels. I will update this with new tools and sources of information as they become available. Background Route planning and navigation is not mysterious if you have a process and have carefully selected the tools and resources required to make good decisions and execute carefully. For my vessel, I have built my route planning and navigation process around the following tools. Navigation Hardware/Software Garmin 8612xsv Multi-Function Display (Chartplotter) Navionics application on both an Android and iPad tablet as well as my smartphone Aqua Map application on my iPad. Weather Sirius XM Weather subscription which requires a Garmin GXM54 satellite receiver connected to the MFD. This allows me to receive real time weather information when cell phone coverage is not available. Navionics and...