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CE app can remember multiple WiFi boat data setups.

nob format and standard GPX files (even ones created using the Navionics Boating app’s superb auto-routing). Moreover, iOS CE’s import functions work quite well with both Rose Point’s native. On the other hand, that’s a reasonable fee if you use the app much, and I also think that all the excellent nav apps available these days are a good justification for an 11- or 13-inch iPad pro. Unlimited route and waypoint creation does not require a subscription either, but I don’t see a way to export them, and using the app’s excellent underway navigation features does require the $50-per-year subscription. The CE app has good routes/marks import and help functions In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised if the CE app becomes a popular way to access ActiveCaptain - much covered on Panbo - and I’m hoping that it will encourage more skippers to write reviews. And get this: All the Conditions and Places data is fully available in the CE app without a subscription, which is to say FREE. You can also write AC reviews right in the CE app, and in addition to all the crowdsourced info, Rose Point has geolocated a great deal of official US Coast Pilot information that can also be consulted. icons are not cluttering up your chart view. And again it’s a viewing mode like Conditions, but called Places (the POI main menu icon), which means that when you’re not looking at Places, the various AC marina, anchorage, etc.

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The Windows version of Coastal Explorer has offered tight integration with ActiveCaptain crowdsourced points-of-interest info almost since AC began, and that too is very handy to have on an iPad.

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CE’s Places view includes full ActiveCaptain info plus US Coast Pilots

Plus even some Yankee boaters prefer gridded weather data presentations like what you’ll find very nicely done in TZ iBoat v2 (which Fred Khedouri reviewed here). Note though that Conditions info currently seems only available for the USA, and similarly, the CE app can only display NOAA raster and vector charts at this point (with Canadian charts purportedly on the way). And I love how the NOAA text forecasts and the nearest weather buoy list change as I pan/zoom the chart to see what’s going where the weather is coming from (or where I’m headed). True, the small NEXRAD presentation (not shown above) is quite minimal, but I’ve got the Storm Radar app for that. I’ve been particularly pleased to have the familiar CE “Conditions” info on my iPad because the display mode - which comes up when you tap the sun/cloud main menu icon at left - includes pretty much all the tidal/weather data and forecasts I like to use frequently. But what’s it like on an iPhone, or to a navigator with no previous Coastal Explorer experience? CE Conditions view includes tides, currents, weather buoys, NOAA text forecasts & NEXRAD For instance, I find that the iPad interface feels remarkably close to the CE I’ve long appreciated on a PC, with nearly all features included.

So rather than a full review, I’ll just share some personal CE iPad highlights, hoping that interested and able boaters give the app a try themselves.

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So it’s wonderful news that the Coastal Explorer app is now official, with many excellent features free to anyone, and the entire navigation package available to owners of CE for Windows until the $50 annual subscription is instituted.

Many of us have been happily beta testing the iOS version of Coastal Explorer for quite a while, but Rose Point Navigation has a long history of not releasing new products until they feel really good about them (and sometimes not at all).