Electronic Charts at SailGB.com

Navigation at sea has gone beyond paper charts, quadrants, chronometers and sextants. Today GPS chart plotters and high quality electronic navigation charts are available to stop you getting lost at sea. Digital nautical charts are the future of maritime navigation and have seen millions of mariners make the switch from traditional paper charts to detailed electronic charts.

SailGB, the sister site of leading outdoor clothing and equipment retailer OutdoorGB, sells extensive electronic charts from C-Map, Garmin BlueChart g2 and Navionics. C-Map Vector based electronic navigation charts are extremely accurate and provide excellent coverage. Compatible with most brands of chart plotters and PC-based navigation systems, the latest range from C-Map is the C-Map Max range of charts.

The C-Map Max range revolutionises the way electronic charts look and behave by utilising dynamic and interactive chart technology. Bringing new life to the electronic chart, the Max range gracefully combines unparalleled levels of chart accuracy and detail with striking presentation and a huge collection of new data to give superb performance and blistering speed.

Object-orientated, C-Map Max charts are ‘intelligent’ as oppose to raster or simple vector equivalents; all chart objects are fully prioritised ensuring the display is free of clutter. For the ultimate ease of use, information about chart objects are displayed in plain English.

Navionics electronic charts are provided on easy-to-use plug & play cartridges that work with the most popular chart plotters. Featuring water depths, navaids, obstructions and automatic detection of possible dangers, these charts are an excellent safe navigation tool.

At SailGB we like how easy Navionics charts are to use, they really are so simple and define the term plug and play. We also like how important data is integrated in addition to the official paper charts and how real-time position, course, speed and track information is displayed. The layered data option is ideal as it allows the user to choose how information is displayed.

Navionics Gold XL9 Charts give 3 times the coverage of the previous Gold XL3 charts and all for the same great price. Developed using seamless technology, the Gold XL9 charts are clearly legible without clutter, holes or discontinuities at every zoom level. Offering a wealth of information on navaids, tide and currents and port services, the Gold XL9 charts are ideal for both sporting fishermen and navigators alike. Navionics Gold XL9 Charts are available on pre-programmed SD card, MMC card and CF chip.

BlueChart g2 is Garmin’s exclusive marine cartography, offering object-orientated marine charts, BlueChart g2 provides the detail of paper charts when viewed on the Garmin plotter line. The level of detail includes spot soundings, inter-tidal zones, wrecks, port plans, restricted areas and more.

Garmin BlueChart g2 features smooth layering and better integration of map graphics for faster redraws and more cohesive panning, scrolling and zooming. Richer colours and shading improve interpretation and visibility and adds more detail on land features, coastal roadways, marine services and municipal areas.

A stand out feature of BlueChart g2 is the application of photo content into the charts. A growing worldwide database of high-quality photo content gives ‘real picture’ detail of many harbours, ports, marinas and coastal features. To make chart reading and orientation easier, the user can choose between 3D mariner’s eye-view map perspective or the familiar 2D direct-overhead view.

The BlueChart g2 is available on Garmin pre-programmed data cards. The Garmin BlueChart g2 Vision gives a whole new perspective on nautical navigation, offering the same rich detailed charting of BlueChart g2 but adds a growing database of high-resolution satellite imagery, above and below the water 3D perspective, auto guidance technology, aerial photographs for real world reference and coastal roads with points of interest.

BlueChart g2 Vision is available on pre-programmed SD data cards.

Also, take a look at our sister site OutdoorGB: http://www.outdoorgb.com.