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At last FREE marine charts!

* Free, vector-based charts now available for FUGAWI Marine ENC navigation software.

* Boaters and sailors have been craving an affordable marine software package, with which they can use free marine vector charts. The wait is now over with the release of FUGAWI Marine ENC software.

* FUGAWI Marine ENC software runs on a PC or laptop and, when connected to a GPS, allows boaters to navigate in real-time using a choice of map formats including the new, free-of-charge NOAA ENC vector charts or the inland waterway IENC charts.

* FUGAWI Marine ENC also contains the features that made the original FUGAWI famous, including: moving map navigation using industry standard charts such as MAPTECH®, SoftChart®, and NDI Digital Ocean®; easy point-and-click route creation; and GPS upload and download of waypoints, routes, and tracks. FUGAWI Marine ENC is also the only marine software package to come standard with software for both Pocket PC and Palm O/S PDA devices. FUGAWI Marine ENC will transfer rasterized charts to a GPS enabled PDA for hand-held navigation.

* Further, the boater or sailor can control FUGAWI Marine ENC Software to toggle the display of soundings, lights, or text as and when desired to de-clutter the screen. FUGAWI Marine ENC will display safe navigation areas in a different color from shallow areas based on the user's setting for vessel draft. Also, the user can change the soundings units from meters to feet. The following illustrates how the display can be altered for a shallower-draft vessel:

Fugawi Enc Deep Draft View Fugawi Enc Shallow Draft View

Fugawi Enc Depth Area Query

* The chart can be queried with a click to display detailed information on buoys, lights, caution areas and other navigational features. The area being querried is highlighted on the chart. For example the chart on the right shows how a depth area is highlighted when it is queried. Some charts include images of features such as bridges.

* NOAA ENC vector-based coastal and harbor charts, developed by the Office of Coast Survey and NOAA to support the marine transportation infrastructure and coastal management, have been developed in the International Hydrographic Office S-57 format. The catalog of these harbor and coastal charts is continually growing, and better yet, the data and subsequent updates are available free-of-charge.

* Inland-Waterway Electronic Navigation Charts (IENC) have been developed by the US Army Corps of Engineers. As with the NOAA ENC, the current IENC catalog, and expanded coverage and updates are available free-of-charge.

* All FUGAWI Marine ENC products are supplied with currently available coastal NOAA ENC Charts and Inland IENC charts on CD-ROM. Users can download expanded coverage and updates from www.fugawi.com at no charge.

FUGAWI SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
* Windows 2000 or XP
* Pentium processor or better
* 64 mb RAM
* 256 color display or better
* 30mb on hard drive
* Mouse or other pointing device
* Serial port for GPS receiver (WIll also work with PCMCIA serial port emulation or USB with serial adapter)
* CD ROM for USA map data (or 650mb on hard drive)
* Program provided on CD


GPS RECEIVER REQUIREMENTS
* GPS receiver with NMEA 0183 output
* Serial port or PCMCIA emulation for GPS input
* Upload and download of waypoints, routes and tracks with popular GPS receivers. Click here to view our GPS compatibility table.
* Can be used with Tripmate GPS receiver

New to Fugawi Marine ENC Ver. 4:

• 3D map viewing. Allows one to see a "ships-eye" view of the land using any NOAA ENC®, BSB, or Softchart nautical chart as well as other Fugawi supported raster charts. The 3D window provides added interpretation when navigating in coastal waters.
• See detailed streets and place names directly on top of ENC or other nautical charts. Get enhanced onshore detail from your ENC charts by overlaying streets and place names.
• AIS - Automatic Identification System Plug in a third party AIS radio receiver to view commercial vessel traffic directly on top of your ENC or other chart.
• Marine Services - Toggle on/off a layer of over 25,000 marine-related points of interest (POIs) from the integrated MPC Boaters Directory: the most comprehensive directory of marine businesses in the USA.
  
• Enhanced and simplified installation, menus and chart management. Fugawi Global Navigator has been dramatically improved to make software and chart installation a breeze. A refreshingly new and simplified menu structure makes the program far more intuitive for new users. An easier to use Map Library helps to keep your maps and charts organized.
• New PDA Edition for Pocket PC and Palm (OS 5 or greater). Adds UTM or Lat/Long position viewing, enhanced route creation, and numerical editing of waypoints to the existing features.
• Lastly, Fugawi Marine ENC Ver. 4 contains all of the features that made its predecessor famous such as point and click route creation, GPS data transfer, on-screen real-time GPS tracking, map printing, street overlay, Geocaching support and much much more.

Bonus Data Pack DVD:
The Canadian Edition of Fugawi Marine ENC Ver. 4 is supplied with a free copy of the Fugawi Data Pack - Canada, which is supplied on DVD, and contains: