Tidal passage planning software for the PC
Planner Plus is designed for tidal passage planning either on board or at home. With its built in data for tidal streams and tidal heights it calculates the course to steer and the best time to go for the tidal situation.
Import wind GRIBs to estimate your boat speed and produce passage plans very easily. Animation lets you virtually sail the course and identify wind over tide situations. The software also interfaces to GPS and AIS receivers via NMEA 0183, so it can act as a back up plotter.
Version 11 is touch screen friendly and is useful for planning many years into the future. Your tidal data does not time out.
Windows may warn you, or look as though it has blocked the file, before it will let the installer run. That is because our installers are not code signed, not because there is anything wrong with them. Choose Keep, then More info and Run anyway. Step by step, with screenshots.
Prices
| Item | Price |
|---|---|
| Planner Plus including one portfolio of charts derived from UKHO sources | £95.95 |
| Additional chart portfolio | £29.95 |
System requirements
Windows 8, 10 or 11. Processor speed 1.6 GHz, 2 Gb RAM, typical hard disk space 300 Mb.
New in version 11.1.5
- Automatic chart change using the mouse scroll wheel
- Waypoint and route management using the modern GPX format, for example Garmin or OpenCPN
- Waypoints and routes compatible with the Neptune app
- UK wrecks and obstructions with details of depths, history and cargo
- Bug fix when downloading some GRIB files
- Touch screen or mouse input, new menu layout, easier chart selection
Program features
- Course to steer calculations
- Route optimised departure
- Course over ground
- Dynamic tidal stream
- Wind and polar plot
- Animate routes
- Tide and water track roll
- Track plotter
- Waypoint editor
- SOLAS compatibility
- Course and tidal vectors
- Cross track error displayed
- Interfaces to GPS
- Interfaces to AIS engine
- Tidal stream reports and graphs
- Incorporates the Tides program
- Range circles
- Configurable displays
- Data derived from UKHO sources
- GRIB files for internet weather
- Google Earth course over ground and tracks
- Select charts using thumbnails
- Zoom to rectangle
- Copy screen and route buttons
- Snap to waypoints
- GPX for waypoints and routes
- Waypoint transfer to GPS receivers and plotters via NMEA 0183
- AIS aid to navigation beacons
- UK wrecks data