Fugawi is fast becoming one of the most popular charting software systems in the world. Its low price, and the ability to scan one?s own charts into the system made it the first choice of economy minded sailors. Now it has included free ENC and RNC charts of US coastal areas, and expanded its compatibility to Palm OS and Pocket PC devices, the Suunto GPS iX10, and Navionics supported charts and chart plotters.

A Charting Navigation Program Fugawi supports all commercial raster charts, ENCs and RNCs. It has solved the problem of a single chart standard for the worldwide coverage afforded by Navionics charts. With the included Navionics card reader, these charts can be used for PC navigation and downloaded to, or uploaded from Raymarine, Furuno, Lowrance, Eagle, or Garmin chartplotters. It also supports Topographic DRG charts, and even charts you can make yourself. The latter can be done with a simple page scanner. You can scan paper charts, cruising guides, ChartKits, roadmaps, and even a drawing or photograph if you choose to make one. The free ENC vector charts are part of an international agreement (S-57) to chart the world. When new charts are released, they will be available to download free at a NOAA website whose address is included with the software. Although these new charts (and their updates) are free, most international versions have a price.

The program ships with the free ENCs and RNCs on a CD for convenience of the user. This saves hours of download time in the case of raster charts. For inland sailors, there are many free inland ENC charts (IENC) which are also included.Region 1 NOAA Planning charts are on a CD, as are USA Streets. This is a fully indexed street map for the entire U.S. Zoom out to the whole country, or zoom in to detailed side -streets. The streets can be displayed onto land or marine maps. A new 3D feature provides a ship?s eye view of the coastline. Once docked, use the street maps to get around.

GPS, Autopilot, and AIS Interface Fugawi is compatible with most popular GPS receivers to provide real time GPS position information on the charts. Users with AIS receivers can viewAIS equipped ships right on the chart, complete with speed, heading, and vessel description. Waypoints, routes and tracks may be uploaded or downloaded. Enjoy easy and accurate route planning then upload your route to a Compact Flash or Secure Digital card for transfer to a chart plotter on board your boat. An NMEA output is available for your autopilot.

Other features include:

• Query all ENC features such as marks, lights and soundings
• Set depth contours for shallow, dangerous and safe navigation areas
• Switch soundings between meters and feet
• Choose north up, map up, course up and route up orientations
• High definition zooming with FineView
• Draw routes and tracks freehand
• Transfer rasterized maps or charts to your Palm or Pocket PC
• Dusk and night vision displays
• Distance calculator and trip odometer
• Attach pictures and sounds to waypoints
• Print out customized charts
• Transfer tracks, routes and waypoints to Facebook.
• Google Earth Maps plug-in
• Overlay streets on charts for near-shore interpretation
• View GRIB weather radar overlay on your chart or map(requires internet connection and WXport subscription - PC only)

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