There’s exciting news in the boating world because the U.S. Coast Guard has finally approved the use of official electronic nautical charts on board vessels. As regulations for boaters appear to keep ...

San Jacinto College and the Seamen’s Church Institute will host e-Navigation Underway (North America) 2016, the third in the annual North American series of conferences focusing upon the development ...

The 2014 Miami International Boat Show drew several innovations and good news from the navigation electronics industry. New charting capabilities will make charts more accurate, more fishable and ...

Starting in April, the federal agency that surveys the nation's waters will offer charts only via on-demand printing, as PDFs or electronic charts. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, ...

WASHINGTON — The federal government is going into uncharted waters, deep-sixing the giant paper nautical charts that it has been printing for mariners for more than 150 years. The National Oceanic and ...

Furuno Fish Finders are the gold standard for finding your catch. Courtesy Furuno For a long time, running a center console or bay boat meant making peace with a real trade-off. Furuno’s navigation ...

In November 2019, the Office of Coast Survey (OCS), part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), announced the start of a five-year program to “sunset” all raster and paper ...