US Nautical Charts-NOAA-Marine Charts app for sailing boating kayaking and fishing - USA – Marine Navigation - Lake Depth Maps - USA - Offline Gps Nautical Charts for Fishing, Sailing and Boating Review

I hold a 50 ton inland Masters license and am a professional mariner in the San Francisco Bay Area. I have used many professional GPS based electronic navigation applications both on dedicated hardware devices and PC based applications such as Navtrek from Nobeltec Software. I recently downloaded GPS Nautical Charts on my iPhone while on vacation in Maui, Hawaii. I was very impressed with how easy it was for me to download the charts for the regions I wanted as well as the ease of use for all the functions, i.e. location indication based on the iPhone's GPS, route planning, track, way points etc. I liked this program so much that tomorrow I'm buying an iPad with 3G/LTE connectivity that has the built in GPS sensor. I plan to install this software on my new iPad and use it on the bay where I crew on the local charter sailboat NEHEMIAH. Also the customer support has been outstanding. All my questions asked via email were answered immediately and provided complete solutions to any issues I had. Anyone who has experience with any of the existing dedicated hardware or PC based electronic navigation software will be very impressed with US Nautical Charts-NOAA-Marine Carts app for sailing boating kayaking and fishing - USA! I just purchased the iPad and installed US Nautical Charts-NOAA-Marine Charts app for sailing boating kayaking and fishing - USA on the iPad as well and am very happy with the details of the chart images, the functions and the user support. While this app. for the iPad is identical to the iPhone app., the larger platform makes it quite a bit easier to operate. One additional note: I've read some of the negative reviews of this app and am quite baffled by the negativity. While I can't compare it to other iPad or iPhone apps., I think this app performs quite well especially when I remember that just a few years ago I needed a PC, Garmin or other brand GPS along with the software like Nobeltek to do the same tasks. Also, connecting the GPS to the PC required a special interface. Unless one is a power user who needs distance off, radar & weather overlays etc. this is a great app.
Review by mikallen on Marine Navigation - Lake Depth Maps - USA - Offline Gps Nautical Charts for Fishing, Sailing and Boating.