![]() ![]() ![]() OpenCPN will happily show the Bauhaus charts as well as CM93 charts which I already had installed as a backup. The first and easier way to do this is with my Mac and OpenCPN which will talk to the GPS onboard Itchy Foot. What I really wanted was to have a plotter with the Bauhaus charts. And as I mentioned before, someone has been kind enough to scan in all the charts from The Panama Cruising guide (4th edition) and turn them into KAP files which can be read by some charting applications. In addition to that we had good advice from Blue Zulu and other cruisers who has passed before us as to their favourites (and importantly why!) The cruising guide also has waypoints which I can enter into my existing navigation software and just bounce from waypoint to waypoint. Obviously we can the anchorage guides and figure out where we would like to go. The next question became how to use the information in the book. When it became clear that we would actually be going to the San Blas and how important (and well written) his guides are, we decided to buy an original copy of the Panama Cruising Guide. Most recommendations favoured ‘The Panama Cruising Guide’ by Eric Bauhaus and there were plenty of pirate copies of both his guide (pdf) and associated charts (kap files) to be found in Grenada and the ABC islands. Before coming to the San Blas I was told that Navionics is not reliable and I should find and alternative source of charts. 99% of the time on Itchy Foot we use Navionics charts for navigation, along with continual sanity checking from the depth sounder, eyeballs, and compass bearings.
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