Rose Point Chart Plotter
Roxanna Bornemann
With support for multiple chart formats, route planning features, integrated gazetteer and guide books, and virtual instrument display, Coastal Explorer will help you make your next cruise safer and more enjoyable.
Coastal Explorer can predict tide levels and tidal currents at all official US stations. Predictions for other countries are also available in some chart products. Tide predictions are presented in easy to read graphs along with daily high, low, and slack water times.
Virtual Instrument panels show you information from your electronics in large, easy to see displays. Coastal Explorer includes an analog compass with waypoint arrow, analog wind, cross track error, and rudder angle displays, depth and temperature graphs, and many digital display options.
Coastal Explorer can use and display information from your GPS, heading sensor, depth sounder, autopilot, water speed and temperature sensors, wind and weather instruments, and AIS receiver. Our Nemo Gateway can interface Coastal Explorer with all of your NMEA 0183 and NMEA 2000 devices. Most other networked NMEA 0183 interfaces are supported as well.
Rose Point ECS is the industry-leading navigation software and the number one selling navigation software for inland vessels in the United States. With Rose Point ECS you get the most comprehensive user experience and sophisticated navigation tools available all in one package.
Rose Point ECS lets you plan an unlimited number of routes and waypoints, provides for boundary areas with speed limit alarms, and includes many other planning and drawing tools. Only Rose Point ECS lets you organize those routes and marks into voyage plan documents which are easily archived, printed, shared, and transferred between PCs.
Rose Point ECS streamlines every departure by consolidating the selection of a destination and route, making adjustments to your vessel and tow configuration, looking up destination codes, and updating your AIS transponder.
Rose Point ECS can automatically calculate routes on US inland waterways and will even find all the bridges, locks, and river stage stations along the way to assist in your Subchapter M Navigation Assessments.
Rose Point ECS can use the official NOAA ENC and NOAA RNC charts directly; there is no need to purchase US charts in a proprietary format. Rose Point ECS even makes it easy to download and install these free charts. Official worldwide charts are available for purchase from within Rose Point ECS.
We now offer a proven simple solution to the confusion around paperless charting! With a primary and a backup Hatteland Series X G2 System running Rose Point ECS, you can meet the requirements of the Coast Guard NVIC 01-16 for paperless charting transits.
Will the completed iPad version have the ability to configure the NMEA 0183 Data Server / Connect to my Comar WiFi that I used between my PCs on board? Looks like right now one must use the Rosepoint NEMO? Thanks in advance, Dan
Just getting started with MS windows based Coastal Explorer on a 2005 sailing vessel. It is intended as a backup electronic chart display and information display system for Raymarine ECDIS with basic NEMA 0183 sensors and 0183 autopilot, and new NEMA 2000 multifunction display, wireless doppler radar and AIS.
I use a Yacht Devices NEMA 2000 wireless gateway YDWG-02 (Raymarine interface) for wireless access to NEMA 0183 and 2000 network data on windows computer, iPhone, and iPad. After a short period of use I can report that the windows based CE works great! Another common ECDIS works ok on the iPad and iPhone.
Just setup build 49 for NEMA 0183 data on iPhone X using both TCP and UDP access to Yacht Devices YDWG-02 wifi access device. The setup was extremely easy. Just accessed the YD wireless network and used IPAddress and Port number for TCP server access. The UDP server only required the Port number. It was identical to the setup info on a Windows tablet running CE.
Coastal Explorer gets and uses untranslated NMEA 2000 data from the Nemo Gateway using our own protocol, so it has access to everything that your NMEA 2000 network has to offer rather than being limited to things that have an NMEA 0183 equivalent.
The Nemo Gateway does not multiplex all of the data together, but rather delivers in a way that Coastal Explorer can tell which NMEA 0183 port a sentence is coming from. This allows Coastal Explorer to give you the option of selecting a specific GPS (or heading sensor, or depth sounder) to use, or to assign priorities so that it always uses the best one that is working at any given time.
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 version out-of-date in as few as every 6 months.
Rose Point has changed their business model recently. You cannot buy the commercial software any more. You must subscribe at $500 per year per license. They added a bunch of new features to their 4.0 version. Which would probably be nice for fleets but useless for a mom and pop operation like mine. Like fleet tracking. Not really hard to track a one boat fleet, especially when I am on the boat 90% of the time.
If they approve anything that shows ENCs then just get OpenCPN for free
You do have to fiddle with the 1001 options for ENCs to avoid nasty surprises, one of the thousand reasons I like RNCs better. Making myself use the ENCs anyway, might as well get used to them.
Rose Point ECS is compliant for Paperless Navigation if you meet the backup arrangement requirements. There is a hardware requirement if you navigate seaward of the territorial sea baseline. Coastal Explorer is not and will never be compliant for Sub M, T, H, or K for paperless transit. There was even a policy letter put out by USCG on that very topic in June, 2023. If you need help in this realm, I am the Director of Sales for Rose Point Navigation. j...@rosepoint.com
Hello All. Does anyone have any suggestions for an ECS or other chart supplement that is sub m approved, other than rosepoint? I am a big fan of rosepoint, however, it does not make sense for some of the smaller vessels in our fleet that still fall under the regulations. Thanks
I take a laptop and tablet with two independent systems with up to date charts with me to every boat because so many tugboats have inadequate crap systems with pirated software and charts that are three years out of date.
Rose Point has stopped shipping DVDs with a purchase of their software. You now need to download it from their website. What we are providing is a software Product ID which when entered into the downloaded software unlocks it for your use. We will not be shipping any physical product to you anymore.
With support for more charts and chart formats than any other recreational navigation system, advanced route planning features, integrated gazetteer and guide books, virtual instrument display, and obstacle alerts, Coastal Explorer will help you make your next cruise safer and more enjoyable.
The gazetteer includes millions of places in the US, Canada, and Mexico and many more countries are available. You can find any of these places on the chart by simply entering a name into the Search box!
Coastal Explorer uses documents instead of a hidden database to keep track of all of your routes, waypoints, boundary areas, and other marks so you can organize them however you want. You can even share them with your friends using email or a USB Flash Drive!
Coastal Explorer can use and display information from your GPS, heading sensor, depth sounder, autopilot, water speed and temperature sensors, wind and weather instruments, RADAR, and AIS receiver. Most NMEA 0183 and NMEA 2000 interfaces are supported.
Connecting marine electronics together is an important goal for modern boaters. Many different ways exist to do this, but most require gateways or direct connections to larger equipment. Once you have them connected, configuration and being able to use all the data effectively from as many devices as possible is usually the next challenge. The Nemo gateway from Rose Point is an easy way to connect everything together, while also easily providing high quality, frequent data to a number of sources.
You can interact with the gateway directly from Coastal Explorer. It looks like Rose Point have wrapped the entire web interface for the device inside of CE which allows you to do anything you could do directly on the webserver without leaving the program. This makes for a seamless experience in one place, which is nice if you are a heavy Coastal Explorer user.
Most devices have services that wait for your computer to connect to them, negotiate some bits, and then the two happily talk to each other without bothering anyone else (commonly called unicast). Multicast means that the Nemo gateway is sending out all of the data from all of your devices to your network, all the time, for every device to consume.
Whether you use Coastal Explorer or a web browser to interact with the Nemo, there are a wealth of settings and screens to interact with. Not only can you configure the device, but the depth of information you can see on the network, devices, and data is amazing. I actually use the Nemo gateway as a debug tool when working on my NMEA networks.
For mobile apps that need NMEA 0183 over your ethernet network, like iNavX, NMEAremote and others, you can configure NMEA 0183 over UDP. This sends out a UDP stream of NMEA 0183 data on port 10110 that you can use with other apps.
In addition, if you have multiple sensors for Depth, Heading, Position or Speed, you can create a prioritized list of the available sensors so that the one you consider best is used first. In the event that the primary fails, secondary items are used. I have at least 3 heading sensors (Raymarine chart plotter, Raymarine autopilot, AIS) and multiple position sensors (Raymarine chart plotter, AIS, VHF) and this allows me to make sure the one I trust the most is used if it is on and functioning.
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