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By SoftCns Editor:

Navigation Tools can be used as an additional toolbar on your windows desktop, providing you with a wide range of navigational calculators at your service.

Tools included:

Navigation Calculator:

• Calculating courses and distances either by rhumbline or greatcircle
  
• Calculating vessels deadreckoning position
  
• Calculating vessels performance, fuel consumption, stopping-distance for various weather conditions
  
• Calculating wheel over point (including weather conditions and current)
  
• Calculating estimated total fuel consumption during voyages for various weather conditions

Heavy Weather:

• Avoiding tropical storms, calculating 'escape routes' at various engine rpm settings
  
• Heavy weather 'tactical display' allowing selection of course/speed avoiding synchronous or parametric rolling, broaching, or flooding

Tides

• Tidal graphs and tidal data
  
• Tidal currents
  
• Tidal passage planner

Weather charts

• Ordering weather charts via Internet email from the free of charge NOAA servers

Passage Planning

• Passage planning including tidal currents and weather conditions online

Memo's

• Memo's per voyage
  
• Memo's and port information for each destination
  
• Vessels departure checklists