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Getting charts for OpenCPN can be a bit of a pain. Not to fear though, as in this OpenCPN tutorial, we're going to walk through all the steps needed for you to create your own charts. And best of all? All the tools we'll use are free! We'll start by ex...

If you've been following along with our OpenCPN series, you know how powerful and versatile this navigation software can be. But did you know that you can enhance your OpenCPN experience even further by adding plugins? In this video, I'm going to share wit...

In our continuing OpenCPN tutorial series, we're going to show how you can easily get AIS and NMEA data into OpenCPN. We use the wifi network from our Vesper Marine AIS, but we'll talk about various alternatives and show HOW to setup the proper network co...

Next up in our series on OpenCPN, the free chartplotter alternative, is how we use the program for basic navigation and planning. We'll cover the following: 0:38 - Measuring Distances 2:43 - Querying Objects in ENC/Vector Charts 4:14 - How to Drop Waypoi...

OpenCPN is a FREE program you can use for planning sailing routes, or you can get more in-depth and use it as a complete chart plotter. It is incredibly powerful, and yes, completely FREE! We use OpenCPN all the time aboard Starry Horizons so it was the ...

Early morning leaving Penang, Malaysia. It was a bit stressful as there's quite shallow waters and big chances of local fisherman setting up fishing nets. The chances even gets bigger as we have to give way to the big cruise ship and leave the channel. We...

While we wait 4 weeks for our sail drive parts to arrive, we take care of some smaller tasks that need to be done on Full Send before we splash back into the water. We also explore a little around the area visiting Fort Caroline National Monument, watching...

We were not yet done with the Pacific Ocean and therefor we decided to change our course towards Wallis, followed by the northern route - Tuvalu, Kiribati, Marshall Islands and finally Federated states of Micronesia.. But that’s for later episodes. :) ...

We reposting our 1 year live aboard Q&A that we recorded LIVE. Since it was our first (and probably only LIVE) recording it was wayyy to long and had technical glitches, but I believe it also had great information. To make all things easier I divided i...

Hi All ! Catamaran Impi is sailing the world for the past 6 years now and in this video we share our passage from New Caledonia to Australia for a SECOND visit. It is strange to think that I never wanted to sail to Australia in the first place, and yet it...

A vlog entry on sailing south down the Chesapeake Bay; installing a cheap (and easy) chart plotter; negotiating another narrow harbor entrance under sail, and moving the boat into the travel lift slip with sail and oar.

Impi is a catamaran sailing around the world. We share some techniques in navigation we use to sail in reef infested waters confidently - we are preparing to sail from New Caledonia for The Loyalty Islands and will anchor off the SE side of New Caledonia i...