by DavidE
on 05-Mar-2007
It would be very useful to have the ability, when planning routes, to make sure that you end up at a particular destination or waypoint at a particular time. For instance, I travel in the northwest through Dodd Narrows, which must be traversed at slack water. Coastal Explorer is can do this, but it is cumbersome. It would be nice if I could say "Must be at this waypoint at 3:05pm" or "at slack", and it would tell me when I had to leave.
We are implementing a new feature for Coastal Explorer 1.2 called the "Route Timeline" which will do exactly what you are looking for.
Glad to hear that the people at Rose Point are so on the ball. I'll be looking forward to this feature! I love using this product. Thanks.
I don't know why this exchange, from last March, bubbled to the top of discussions here but... I've used this function in another program and would like to see it in CE. The best example of using this planning was during a trip down Long Island Sound to New York Harbor. We wanted to catch the tide so that we'd carry it through the trip and had to work back from when the tide was due to turn, at Throggs neck Bridge, to figure out when to leave Port Washington. We got it right and wound up making better than 10 kts over the bottom along Roosevelt Island. Wheee!
Will this function show up in 2.0?
This topic bubbled up to the top temporarily due to a number of silly circumstances, but yes, the Route Timeline will be part of Coastal Explorer 2.0.
I sail in the Northwest and am new to CE (beta version). I love it so far, and the Route Timeline is neat. I try very hard to catch favorable currents, and it usually gets me an extra knot or so SOG. Any way that CE 2.0 will be able to adjust the boat speed for the Timeline based on favorable (or unfavorable) currents?
For example, I might be bucking a .7 knot current for the first two hours of a planned route, but then have a kick of 1.2 knots for the final three hours. That will affect by ETA greatly.