navCenter

My new yacht’s production chart plotter displays just fine for light-traffic areas, but I find navCenter’s AIS display provides far more awareness of the situation in high-traffic areas such. It handled the Straits of Malacca perfectly, showing relative positions at projected CPA much better than my boat’s onboard systems. Interfacing to the onboard NMEA data via Wi-Fi was not difficult and the various screens provided good awareness for me as skipper when I was off-watch as well. Thanks to the developers!

I really like this app. Easy to connect, nice interface, reliable. My only problem is that I don’t have a gps on board and I would love to use the iPhone GPS for COG etc.

After talking to the developer, it sounds like the Raymarine Autopilot control feature currently requires bi-directional Seatalk support on your WiFi bridge. Some NMEA bridges support this, but many only do SeataIk input and NMEA output. Update: after getting a bidirectional Seatalk Wi-Fi bridge, the app works great. This requirement is due to Raymarine only partially implementing NMEA support on the ST6001 autopilot control head.