There is no discovery to say that Garmin is a leader in marine electronics on its own merits. Their constant innovation has provided great benefits to boaters.
Among its facilities it is worth noting the plotters, the autopilots, radars, probes, transducers and systems of communication VHS and AIS.
Garmin has made a firm commitment by the connectivity and comfort of the sailors. It is for this reason, he has developed an extensive range of mobile applications such as Navionics, allows access to nautical charts from your mobile or tablet, or the application Striker Cast with that you can display the images of the probe from the mobile device.
But today we are going to speak about one of the most useful applications for any amateur or professional of the nautical: ActiveCaptain.
It is a free application “all-in-one” that connects with the plotter, navigation charts, while also allowing access to the community ActiveCaptain, in which sailors from all over the world to share updated information on marinas, slipways and other data of interest, which, in addition you can sync with your chartplotter Garmin compatible.
Stand out among its features:
- Buy new nautical charts and activate the subscription to Garmin Navionics Garmin Navionics+™ or Garmin Navionics Vision+™ from a mobile device at any time with the built-in function OneChart to load without problems the cards in your chartplotter via the application.
- Access to the cards and upgrade them.
- Join and connect the community ActiveCaptain.
- - Sync data: allows you to explore a new area of fishing or plan a route before you go sailing. Then, you can upload them directly to the plotter, which will show your routes and waypoints.
- Supervision of the boat. If you have installed the system OneDeck Garmin monitoring of the boat, you can monitor the possible problems of the boat (open doors, lights on, battery status, etc), remote control of the built-in controls and receive on your mobile alerts you've set.
- Control your chartplotter from your mobile device, through the application Garmin Helm™ built-in.
