Is the Rose Point electronic charting system a legal charting system on subchapter M tugs? Trying to see if we’re in trouble when they stop making paper charts. Thanks.

We’re using Coastal Explorer version.

Coastal Explorer is Rosepoint’s only program. There are two versions. I forget exactly what they are called, let’s just call them: Recreational, and Commercial It’s Subchapter M tolerated because it’s the most common chat plotter program in use on tugs.

I see that chart 18665 (Lake Tahoe) is the first up for cancellation this year, whilst NOAA’s release announcement of Custom Chart this month states that at least initially these printable PDFs will not meet carriage requirements. So, I don’t think that’s the intended way for people to stay complia…

I don’t know anything about use of ENCs I was responding to the part about the availableabily of paper charts when NOAA stops printing them. While NOAA is phasing out the sale of paper charts they can still be purchased from private companies. For example deep-sea we have been using OceanGrafix …

It was explained to me that Rose Point ECS will be about the only alternative to ECDIS soon for Electronic charts. With 2 of the approved computers. For about $12000 all in. POD ENC charts will be all that is available soon in printed versions, but the correction timeline might make the printed ver…

Nobeltec Time Zero, the “professional” version is so far being tolerated by the USCG for Subchapter M. All in all, Coastal Explorer and Nobeltec are both good programs. Nobeltec is certainly more powerful, but is that really important? Each has its pluses and minuses. There are a number of other…

I don’t know anything about use of ENCs I was responding to the part about the availableabily of paper charts when NOAA stops printing them. That’s the part I’m curious about; as far as I’m aware vendors like OceanGrafix are not actually producing charts themselves, but merely printing the NOAA r…

Yes, I missed that NOAA had already stopped printing charts. It’s also true that OceanGrafix and others are printing on-demand charts (fully corrected) using NOAA raster data. This article doesn’t explicitly say that the new ENC-based charts will eventually meet carriage requirements but presumably…

I posted this a few days ago, but it’s already buried well down the board. NOAA is giving a couple of webinars, including one on custom charts. [image] NOAA Webinars Professional Mariner Forum NOAA is sponsoring two webinars on the future of paper charts. The first is on t…

I am on a Sub M tug with a COI. They have approved our version of Rose Point ECS from 2011. We run it on a standard laptop. I have some old paper charts as a backup. SIRE has looked at it also. Rose Point has changed their business model recently. You cannot buy the commercial software any more. Yo…

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I posted this a few days ago, but it’s already buried well down the board. NOAA is giving a couple of webinars, including one on custom charts.

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